topic Re: Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines do not support read_files with format excel yet in Data Engineering

Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines do not support read_files with format excel yet

DhivyaKeerthana — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:38:07 GMT

Error: Failed to find the data source: excel. Make sure the provider name is correct and the package is properly registered and compatible with your Spark version.

Upon checking the cluster details, it is running with 16.4 yet. When will it be updated to 17 or above?

Re: Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines do not support read_files with format excel yet

szymon_dybczak — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:21:03 GMT

Hi @DhivyaKeerthana ,

As you correctly mentioned the native Excel support is available as a preview feature in runtime >= 17.
So you can try to use preview channel in SDP which is based on runtime version 17.3

Re: Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines do not support read_files with format excel yet

DhivyaKeerthana — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:51:36 GMT

Thank you @szymon_dybczak, it works!!

Re: Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines do not support read_files with format excel yet

szymon_dybczak — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:56:26 GMT

Great news @DhivyaKeerthana. I'm glad that it worked for you 🙂