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Variable SQL Statements pulling from a cell in Excel
Yes it's definitely possible if you handle your queries with VBA. Don't know
if Excel's Data menu option to query an external database can. Actually, I think it can't Check out these KB articles http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295646 http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=h...412%2fen-us%2f "Preacher Man" wrote: I have a situation that I hope someone can give me a good answer to. Please bear with me as I try to explain my needs. My goal is to have an Excel spreadsheet that pulls from a SQL database and the the query pulls from a variable in the Excel sheet. For example let's say I am pulling Sales Orders from SQL, let's also simply assume the record has two fields Year and SOno. Under a simple query I could say Select * from table. Of course that would pull all so's from every year. To filter the query of course I could say Select * from table where year='2006'. And naturally that would give me 2006 orders. OK, here's where I can't figure this out. I want the query to filter according to a value in a cell in excel. Let's use cell A1. Essentially I am looking for a query that says "Select * from table where Year=(Cell A1 in the Sheet)" Is this possible? |
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Variable SQL Statements pulling from a cell in Excel
Thanks for the tip on the parameters. I didn't know it was there. But I
still have a problem. The select statement I am using is just a little complex, but it is too complex for MS Query to display graphically. So when I use the where field=? and run the query, it comes back and says "Parameters are not allowed in queries that can't be displayed graphically" Please tell me there is a workaround. Thanks. "Duke Carey" wrote in message ... Yes it's definitely possible if you handle your queries with VBA. Don't know if Excel's Data menu option to query an external database can. Actually, I think it can't Check out these KB articles http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295646 http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=h...412%2fen-us%2f "Preacher Man" wrote: I have a situation that I hope someone can give me a good answer to. Please bear with me as I try to explain my needs. My goal is to have an Excel spreadsheet that pulls from a SQL database and the the query pulls from a variable in the Excel sheet. For example let's say I am pulling Sales Orders from SQL, let's also simply assume the record has two fields Year and SOno. Under a simple query I could say Select * from table. Of course that would pull all so's from every year. To filter the query of course I could say Select * from table where year='2006'. And naturally that would give me 2006 orders. OK, here's where I can't figure this out. I want the query to filter according to a value in a cell in excel. Let's use cell A1. Essentially I am looking for a query that says "Select * from table where Year=(Cell A1 in the Sheet)" Is this possible? |
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Variable SQL Statements pulling from a cell in Excel
Use http://vangelder.orcon.net.nz/ QueryEditor to get around this
limitation. BTW a table cannot be a variabl/parametere in an SQL query so you'll need to update the SQL statement manually for each TABLE. Using VBA would be the best. Here is some speudo code you could use after you created the Query manually first DIm qtb as QueryTable DIm strTable as String Const Query = "Select * FROM %TABLE% where year=?" Set qtb = Activesheet.QueryTables(1) qtb.CommandText = Query strTable = Inputbox("Enter a table Name") qtb.CommandText = replace(Query,"%TABLE%",strTable) qtb.refresh DM Unseen |
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