When I update the query I have to put in a holding value for each parameter
and then I have to substitute for that holding value in the parameter by
reference the cells for each parameter.

Am I doing this wrong or is this the only way to set up a series of
parameters that I can then substitute the values by updating the cell
contents?

What I want to be able to do is paste into a column a group of 1 to 400 user
id's and then query SQL for where those ID's are assigned values in a series
of tables. The query works great when I specifiy the specific user IDs either
directly in the query or in the Parameter directly. When I substitute the
fixed parameter for a cell reference It works. When I update the cell
reference it does not seem to work. So there are two problems. How do I
create parameters for 400 entries and why does Excel not update correctly
when I substitute the values in those cells?

"Jockel" wrote:

I am able to build a parameter based query. I want to substitute the
parameters by using Cell references in the query. I looks like I must add on
parameter for each cell in a column. The query needs to process 200
parameters at a time. Is there an easier way to configure this?

Current dqy file looks like this:

XLODBC
1
Description=xxxxxx Lab;DRIVER=SQL
Server;SERVER=xxxxxx;UID=UGS;APP=Microsoft® Windows® Operating
System;WSID=PTLLG3L7C91;DATABASE=xxxxx
SELECT jc_test2.Access, jc_test2.Access_Type, jc_test2.Computer,
jc_test2.GroupDomain, jc_test2.GroupName, jc_test2."Resource Type",
jc_test2.USERDomain, jc_test2.USERName FROM Altiris.dbo.jc_test2 jc_test2
WHERE (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR
(jc_test2.USERName Like ?) OR (jc_test2.USERName Like ?)
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Access Access_Type Computer GroupDomain GroupName Resource
Type USERDomain USERName