Excel sql query tutorial. To connect to a data source see import data from external data sources. In this step by step tutorial i will show you how to create an microsoft query to extract data from either you current workbook or an external excel file. Excel is an easy way to retrieve external data from sql server or other database platforms. Microsoft excel handles sql via its own sql dialect.
The tutorial below provides an introduction to the syntax for sql querying against excel files focusing on common approaches when pulling data from excel as a querysurge source or target. If you know basics of sql language you can prepare sql query in excel and create fully automated report. The vba code is below. Following these steps will help you increase the efficiency of reporting activities especially when these reports require real time abilities such as custom data granularity based on who is.
With query editor you can navigate define and perform data transform operations over a data source. The task is to connect into sql server sql database and execute a sql query which contains sales in relation to months products and product categories. On the right see my excel worksheet and the message box with the similar output from my vba macro. To display the query editor dialog box connect to a data source and click edit query in the navigator pane or double click a query in the workbook queries pane.
In this tutorial we went through the steps to create parameters in sql queries when using microsoft excel to consume data from your data lake using dremio. An excel worksheet and the output of the runselect macro let see how to run a simple select sql query in excel vba on an example excel worksheet.