http://www.osnews.com/story/14854/Using_Excel_to_Analyze_MySQL_Data Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:02:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?131828 http://osnews.com/thread?131828 I once used excel to recover a damaged Access database.. It worked very well, and weeks of work were saved. (We had no backup) Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (audun) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?131858 http://osnews.com/thread?131858 people routinely use odbc connections from excel and access to whatever remote databases.
Most users simply use the data without even knowing it resides on an Oracle or AS400 machine, but... ODBC is not really news, is it? Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RenatoRam) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?131888 http://osnews.com/thread?131888 "You might be surprised to know that you can connect Excel to a database"

Actually, i'm not surprised at all.

If i'm not mistaken, you can do this since at least 97...Edited 2006-06-09 13:40 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jcinacio) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?131939 http://osnews.com/thread?131939 // ... (We had no backup)//
bet that was the last time that happened ... right? Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rockwell) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?131974 http://osnews.com/thread?131974 /nitpickmode on
connect MySQL to Excel
I know people using Excel like a database, but to connect MySQL to Excel seems a bit over the top.
On the other hand, if you're talking about connecting Excel to MySQL...
/nitpickmode off :-P Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132011 http://osnews.com/thread?132011 You can do anything with Excel that you can do with any programming language ... Excel is turing equivalent... Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132097 http://osnews.com/thread?132097 *Cough* sorry not really surprised - I guess its just a feature rarely used as its not the common office task .

:) Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poohgee) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132107 http://osnews.com/thread?132107 ...because nobody cares, but that other office suite, you know the one that doesn't suck, can do this too. Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kernelpanicked) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132203 http://osnews.com/thread?132203 you wouldn't by any chance haved a turing machine implemented as an excel macro, would you. Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132231 http://osnews.com/thread?132231 The big question is if it can be done in excel, can you do it in openoffice spreadsheet as well. And if so do we still require ODBC bridge to connect to the mysql database... Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbalmer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132244 http://osnews.com/thread?132244 This can be done since years..

@RenatoRam: Jup, it's possible to connect to a DB2/UDB, but it can screw it up badly. No damage or so, but the amount of allocated memory for each session is horrible. Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MatzeLoCal) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132290 http://osnews.com/thread?132290 since Excel can only display about 65000 rows, this is only suitable for "game" database environments. Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ralf.) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132362 http://osnews.com/thread?132362 ODBC is a standard for how you access a database from an application. Open Office does use it to access MySQL databases. Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mipeligro) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132491 http://osnews.com/thread?132491 Yes, you can pull data from MySQL into OpenOffice Calc. I have done it with both the ODBC and JDBC connectors for MySQL. You want to look at the creating a data source in OO Base and then use the DataPilot features in OO Calc. Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frankr) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?132597 http://osnews.com/thread?132597 Actually, i'm not surprised at all. Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nealsaferstein) Comments