Yes, Tom,

Thanks for pointing out the problems with Microsofts built-in stored procedures.

If the OPENROWSET can handle this, that is great.

BTW:

In Excel I'm using table-valued functions and do not specify "Table"...

I agree, the code for using OPENROWSET is very interesting.

But since the stored procedure has to return a result set, what is the advantage over using a table-valued function?