I'm trying to import this Excel file using the Excel ODBC driver, but
its failing on this one file that has at least 256 columns. The error
message is "{ODBC Excel Driver] Too many fields defined." The statement
I'm using to perform the query is SELECT * `<table name` WHERE 1. Is
this a problem of * being too many columns? Is there anyway around
this, such as making the connection read-only, or forward scrolling
only, or any other restrictions that I can live with? Read-only and
forward scrolling are 2 such restrictions.

Also, how do I identify the error code returned? Right now I'm
getting -1040 as an error, but is there a more abstract way of
detecting this error? I'm developing under VC++6.0, btw, so I might not
be using the same environment as you.