Uploading data from Excel 365 to Azure Sql Server using VBA only - excel

Question

Although I used to be pretty advanced using VBA many moons ago, apparently that guy has left the building.
I just recovered some very large commodity and equity data sets I had in excel files from years ago. I have compiled them all together into one file and am trying to upload the data to my Azure SQL server. I cannot find ANYTHING anywhere on how to load data TO Azure, but I find many articles on loading FROM Azure.
Inside excel you can only create a connection to Azure SQL to IMPORT data into excel, one way street, no way to make a connection you can load from.
Any help appreciated. I can always use the old CSV's, read them in using c# in my web app, but I can update the data to current each week in this one file and I'd prefer to write the whole routine in VBA to get the data, check it, and load it to Azure.
Note: Yes, I know how to use ADODB connections but I cant find any drivers specific to using Azure SQL
Further update:
Using the following and I've tried 2 dozen variations, produces this error each time. And I installed the Sql Native Client Driver #12
Here is the function with the Driver, which I believ eis the issue, or the permissioning, because the azure sql db exists. This is the connection string from the portal
Public Function ExportExcelDataToAzureDb(wsSource As Worksheet) As Boolean
'I am using Activex Data Object 2.8 reference
Dim connectionString As String
Dim oConn As ADODB.Connection
Dim record As ADODB.Recordset
Dim cmd As ADODB.Command
connectionString = "Driver={SQL Server Native Client 12.0};Server=tcp:myazuresqlserver.database.windows.net,1433;Initial Catalog=myappdb;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=myuser;Password={mypass};MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Encrypt=True;TrustServerCertificate=False;Connection Timeout=30;"
Set oConn = New ADODB.Connection
oConn.connectionString = connectionString
oConn.Open
'load the data
ExportExcelDataToAzureDb = True
End Function
Obviously, I have substituted for the server, db, user and password

Answer 1

After a LOT of searching for various connection strings examples AND about 100 different tests of string variations.
Here is the proper connection string format to use with Excel VBA to import/export data from Azure SQL Database. I am providing my whole function for inserting data, with some parts removed for security concerns.
Option Explicit
Public dbConn As ADODB.Connection
Public adodbRecordSet As ADODB.recordSet
Public rsc As ADODB.recordSet
Public Const AzureDataSource As String = "tcp:yourazuredbservername.database.windows.net,1433"
Public Const AzureDbName As String = "yourazuredbname"
Public Const dbDriverProvider As String = "SQLNCLI11"
'I am using Activex Data Object 2.8 reference, SQL Native Client 11
Public Function ExportExcelDataToAzureDb(wsSource As Worksheet, dataRange As Range) As Boolean
Dim connectionString As String, sql As String
Dim cnt As Integer
Dim cCell As Range
connectionString = "Provider=" & dbDriverProvider & ";" & "Password=yourpassword;User ID=yourusername; " & _
"Initial Catalog=" & AzureDbName & ";" & _
"Data Source=" & AzureDataSource & ";"""
Set dbConn = New ADODB.Connection
Set adodbRecordSet = New ADODB.recordSet
dbConn.connectionString = connectionString
dbConn.Open
' do work here
cnt = 0
With wsSource
For Each cCell In dataRange
sql = "your insert statement here"
adodbRecordSet.Open sql, dbConn, adOpenDynamic, adLockReadOnly, adCmdText
cnt = cnt + 1
Next cCell
End With
'clean up
dbConn.Close
' log count of uploaded data records
Call PrintLog("Records loaded on " & Now & ": " & cnt & " symbol records")
ExportExcelDataToAzureDb = True
End Function
If anyone knows how to get this working with later versions of the ActiveX Data Object or the SQL Native Client Library please post another answer.

Answer 2

After trying many solution, i have come to the conclusion that the most important thing is
using Activex Data Object 2.8 reference, SQL Native Client 11. using the lower version seems to work best
for my connection string i am using what is below format
connection = "Driver={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};" & _
"Server=tcp:YourDataBase.net,1433;" & _
"Database=YourDatabaseName;" & _
"Uid=XXXX;" & _
"Pwd=XXXXXXX;" & _
"Encrypt=yes;Connection Timeout=30;"
Hope this help other people. This was super frustrating for me