Excel spreadsheets are fantastic bits of kit, but databases are not. Rather than making the full jump to replacing Excel with a database system, there is a halfway house you can consider.

Learn how to connect Excel to a SQL database in the cloud so you can import data and create tables and charts based on values in the database. In this tutorial you will set up the connection between ...

I would like the user to be able to click a button on the web page that will run a SQL query (canned report) and export the result data to an Excel spreadsheet. The data does not need to display ...

Locate "Oracle," click on it and then click "Application Development." Start the "SQL Plus" program by clicking on it. SQL Plus opens a dialog box for logging into your Oracle database.

Connect to the database We tried this using MS-SQL 2000 Server for the database and Excel from MS Office XP. To query the database, start Excel, go to the Tools menu and click on Add-Ins.

Excel and Access are now connected, and the data from the Northwind CustomersExtended table appears in Excel. Refresh data Now that Northwind can now easily view and analyze the information in its ...