How do I add extra rows to an Excel sheet via ODBC? - excel

Question

I used ODBC to create a sheet in Excel and add a row to it.
Literally the commands were just:
create table 'update5' ('age' NUMBER);
insert into 'update5'.'age' values (1);
This works and I can see the rows in the sheet and via DBVisualiser and my ODBC query results.
Later, I wrote more SQL to add another row like so:
insert into 'update5' ('age') values (2);
but I get the error:
[Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] Cannot expand named range.
I do not know why named ranges are being used, is there a way I can set ODBC to not use them?

Answer 1

Without knowing more about what your doing, what you're working with, and your end-goal I can't give a definite answer - however, if you're saying this works fine as-is:
create table 'update5' ('age' NUMBER);
insert into 'update5'.'age' values (1);
...then it stands to reason that this:
insert into update5 values (2);
...will not work because your missing:
quotation marks (which may or may not be optional in your environment), and,
the field name to which you want to export.
In the first insert into statement you have:
'update5' <-- the destination table
.'age' <-- the destination field
values (1); <-- the value to insert
...so if you're just trying to add a record with the number 2 to the same field, use the same code:
insert into 'update5'.'age' values (2);
More Information:
w3schools : SQL INSERT INTO Statement
TutorialsPoint : SQL INSERT Query (Tutorial)

Answer 2

Found it.
When you create an table in Excel via ODBC you create a named range of the same name within that table.
When you try to insert like this:
insert into 'update5'.'age' values (2);
It is interpreted as you trying to add to the the named range called update5 which is inside the table update5.
You need to use the syntax:
insert into [update5$].'age' values (2);
to add values to the table called update5.