Comments on: Parameters in Excel external data queries

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:13 +0000

Torunn, why not create a view? This keeps your users off your tables, but brings all of the Excel parameter discussion here back into play.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:11:48 +0000

I need help.. when a week falls in two months I need a formula to figure out how many hours was in one month and how many hours was in the other month..
Example: Beginning week: 11/27/11 Ending week 12/3/11 Employee worked 0 hours on 11/27, 8 hours on 11/28, 9 hours on 11/29 9 on 11/30, 9 on 12/1, 8 on 12/2 and 4 on 12/3 now I need to know how many Reg hours and ot hours they had in the 1st month (Nov) and how many reg hours and OT hours in the 2nd month (Dec) or what ever month it happens to be can some help me with fixing a spread sheet for this? I have to split this up for billing purposes…

Thanks for any help you can give me..
Kim

By: Torunn

Torunn — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:33:00 +0000

My problem has all to do with Ms SQL Server and Excel and parameters but I'm adding a problem. I don't want the users to have access to my tables at all. To be totally sure my db is protected I want to access my database through a stored procedure and show the result in Excel - AND I want the user to be able to put in a value as a parameter to my procedure. I have tried to access the procedure through ODBC, but then it will not accept a parameter.

Any ideas - anyone?

Very grateful for all answers that can help me here

By: Terri

Terri — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:23:00 +0000

I am using Excel 2007 doing a connection to Access. Why is my Edit Query box inactive?

By: Junior

Junior — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:07:00 +0000

Hi,
Congratulations for this post.
I have one dynamic table and I am seeking SQL Server data with criteria of date.
...
WHERE (tblPrdTotaliz.TagTime>=? And tblPrdTotaliz.TagTime<=?)
...
I followed step by Step and worked. If I not close the file works, but when I saved the file and open again, asks for me enter the date again or the cell with the date.

Have you seen this happen?

Thanks

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:40:00 +0000

Hi
Brilliant! I have tried this before and could not get it working.
Thanks a mil.
Rene

By: Cort

Cort — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:10:00 +0000

I'm working with dqy files and it's nice for end users cause they can just double click the file and open it. I have two questions:

1) When first opening the query, there is a dialog box that pops up:

"Opening Query
This file contains queries to external data.
Queries are used to import external data into Excel, but queries can be designed to access confidential information and possibly make that information available for other users, or to perform other harmful actions.
If you trust the source of this file, click Open."

With Open and Cancel buttons. Any way to suppress this message and skip it?

2) If I wanted to open a dqy file from a command prompt, can I send a parameter to it?

Thanks!!!
Cort

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:04:00 +0000

http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/04/28/dynamic-columns-in-ms-query/

http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/04/28/dynamic-columns-in-ms-query-ii/

By: Jeff Weir

Jeff Weir — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:22:00 +0000

Hi Dick. That's what I'm doing at the moment, which is working well enough...I just wanted to see if I could do this for the sake of it. Fazza over at the MR Excel board gave me some options, all requiring VBA code:

1) Run one query - say just a small dataset returned - such as "SELECT TOP 1 * FROM data" to a worksheet, maybe (very) hidden. Then based on the last few returned headers, edit the SQL in the query you're really interested in.

2) Or instead of a query table, use either ADOX to read the header names, or, and it might be simpler, plain old ADO to query the data - and again returning a small dataset if there is a lot of data - and loop through the fields collection, grab the last few headers and edit the SQL to suit.

(I was naughty and cross-posted)

So I'll probably call the SQL from VBA...just need to work out how when I get time to consult GOOGLE.

Slight aside...when I refresh my query, and if someone else at work has the source file open, then for some strange reason the source file gets opened by my pc and then all the data gets populated into my destination book with screwed up formatting. But if the source file is closed, it works fine. MS query is pretty darn mysterious...

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:05:00 +0000

Jeff: I don't think you can do it without changing the query every time. I would put it on a separate sheet and use

SELECT * FROM 'Worksheet_Name$'

That way you'll get every column. Then you could use a formula to get the data from the column you want.