BI publisher excel analyzer file problem

Hi Gurus,
I am trying to retrieve 20k+ records from the SQL database. It involves, per record, about 10 columns. However, when I press the "Analyzer for Excel" button, it somehow lead to an internal server error with the messsage as below.
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
And after I try to reduce the number of records and manage to save the file as excel format, it prompts a message "unable to read" when I try to open it. Any clue?
Any settings that I could change to retrieve the records?
Many thx.
Rgds,
Raymond

hi Raymond,
The excel sheet will accept 56,535(not sure about correct digit) rows in one sheet.I also faced the same problem when i open an excel sheet it displays unable to read and showing a blank sheet.
I tried to change the query by placing rownum<50,000 like that. Try this it should work.
Thanks,
Saichand.V

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