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I was recently using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) in SQL Server 2012 to attempt to import an Excel spreadsheet into a SQL Server database table, when I encountered the following error message:

After doing a bit of further research, I discovered an article which pointed to this download:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255

So after installing the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable (I installed the 32-bit version), I was able to successfully import my Excel spreadsheet using SSIS!!