Excel vba sql query tutorial. Lesson 22 on excel macros vba. We will look at an example that enables us to lookup a customers total revenue value from an excel formula. For example proper sql syntax proper vba syntax and proper referencing of controls are three common points. Wrong group this forum is for a special technology linking net code to excel and word files in place of vba.
On the right see my excel worksheet and the message box with the similar output from my vba macro. You need to ask in the excelprogramming newsgroup where youll find lots of people who work with excel sql server and vba and know the object model inside and out. 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. Constructing an sql statement in vba can be tricky because there are often several areas of access needed to construct the string.
Here is a sample of what you will find in lesson 22 of the downloadable tutorial on excel macros. The vba code is below. Sql stands for structured query language and is the language used to extract data from almost all databases like access and sql server from microsoft or oracle sybase sap and also most. However the process for creating a ms query for access sql and text csv files is very similar open the ms query from other sources wizard go to the data ribbon tab and click from other sources.
Using vba we can do this. Create report in seconds by fetching data from sql server using excel vba. Query sql server from excel office 2013 duration. As long as the strings are visually displayed somewhere in the ui it is fairly easy to find errors and correct them.
Select the last option from microsoft query.