I am on a Windows 7 machine and have configured a ODBC connection by name of 'MyExcelDb' to an excel file. I am able to programatically connect to 'MyExcelDb' using type-1 jdbc driver and everything is working fine.
I now want to use Oracle SQLDveloper to query the DSN 'MyExcelDb' but I am not able to make this connection as I do not find any option for ODBC Connection. I have tried using the 'advanced' option in Oracle section and tried putting custom jdbc URL as 'jdbc:odbc:excelDB' bugt to no avail.
I have tried adding entries in SQLDeveloper for third party drivers like:
- sourceforge.net/projects/xlsql/
- code.google.com/p/sqlsheet/
- hxtt.com/excel.html
Despite this but no new connection option would appear and I am still struggling to make connection between the two.
I have searched around and found that I could install Oracle and add a TNS for the excel and that way I may be able to connect using the Oracle TNS in SQLDeveloper. Installing Oracle database but would be like killing a mosquito using a canon.
I wonder if there is a simple solution to my problem.
Have you tried following Oracle's guidelines for connecting to Excel files? Did you set up a system DSN as described in step three of the Oracle guide. Importing files into the database is routine and simple but using SQL Developer in the manner you describe, without the client installed. Here is an example of reading an Excel file via PL/SQL.
My question is why use SQL Developer to manipulate a datastore in Excel when Excel is designed to manipulate the data?
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As per the title I'm trying to connect to local MAMP database. This should be possible as Excel Mac 2016 includes Simba ODBC driver. However when I try and set up a connection via the dialog box shown, I always get an error shown below.
I've use the standard MAMP settings for the sql server as shown in first image.
Any help would be much appreciated as is hard to make this work.
Thanks
MAMP settings
Excel Dialog box
Error message
I've finally got this connecting.
Info which solved the answer found at
https://github.com/openlink/iODBC/issues/29
Basically excel 365 is sandboxed and so even if you create a DSN that tests ok in iODBC, it just continues to crash excel if you try to connect to it. Also I'm guessing sandboxing explains why excel is not able to see User DSNs created with iODBC, and can only see system ones.
So for others trying to connect Excel to MySQL, I needed to download iODBC to set up DSNs, and then download the iODBC connector for the ODBC drivers.
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/
I then moved the driver libraries from /usr/local/mysql..... to /Library/ODBC/mysql...
I created a system DSN (as excel seems only to see the system ones) with keys
server 127.0.0.1
port 3306
username root
password *
[These details came from the MAMP page]
And then I was able to connect!
I query a vertica database (using squirrel-sql tool). Is this possible to be done in excel and populate into a worksheet?
Does anyone have a possible solution for this?
Can't find anything about this online.
I have the driver location, host name, port name, user/pass.
Thanks.
You can query Vertica directly from excel. I did it and it works, just download ODBC driver, install driver, setup DNS and follow to instructions.
For version 7.x, read here
UPDATE on comment
Full documentation: Installing the Client Drivers and Tools on Windows
Download Windows Client Drivers from here. Excel require ODBC drivers.
Install drivers(double click on exe file -> next -> next -> profit!!).
Set up ODBC DNS, instructions are here
Follow to instructions here
profit!
I'm trying to get into Sage 50 (v20 2014) via ODBC in Excel 2016 64bit. I keep running into connection problems.
I've set up a 64bit DSN using the utility on the Sage disk and I get the following...
If I go through 'Data/From other sources/From Microsoft Query' I get the usual 'Choose data source' box and the Sage DSN is visible. If I click it and click ok MS Query launches and then crashes immediately and I get 'Microsoft Query has stopped working'.
Interestingly, if I go back to the 'Choose Data Source' box, I get the error 'One or more of the folders in the search path could not be accessed'.
The default path set in the DSN is to 'C:\ProgramData\Sage\Accounts\2014\Company.000\ACCDATA' - the actual Sage database that I'm trying to access is in a network folder - 'V:\SHARED\Sage\COMPANY.002\ACCDATA'. I've tried both paths in the DSN and get the same results.
If I go through 'Data/New Query/From Other Sources/From ODBC' and then choose the Sage DSN, I get a full list of the tables but when I click on one of them to generate a preview, I get the following error...
DataSource.Error:ODBC:ERROR[42S02] Table not found
Details:
DataSourceKind=Odbc
DataSourcePath=dsn=SageLine50v20
OdbcErrors=Table
Also, if I use 'From data Connection Wizard', Excel crashes as soon as I choose the Sage DSN.
I'm not using any kind of connection string so I don't think it's authenticating with a user - I'm wondering if that would make a difference and if so, what would the connection string be?
I've been through everything that comes up if I google the problem and I've set up logins correctly etc but it will not connect. I don't know if this might be a 32/64bit comparability issue, but I'm using the 64bit Sage driver from the disk so I assumed that it wouldn't be a problem.
I've also tried connecting with MS PowerBI but I get the same problems.
Sage 50 is temperamental in how it allow connections to their database, what I mean: When it don't change the port, it just reject connections in awkward ways or not connect at all.
I didn't find a solution. However I found this workaround: Open sage, login and close it then connect using the DSN sage created with the sysadmin account(It grants you full access).
When defining the data path, it is critical to include a final backslash e.g
C:\ProgramData\Sage\Accounts\2018\COMPANY.001\ACCDATA\
I am creating connection of excel spread sheets with my oracle database. But, tnsnames.ora cannot read in ODBC data sources. I have already created an environmental variable of tnsnames.ora but still its not working.
path: C:\OraCient12c\Administrator\product\12.1.0\client_1\Network\Admin
I am using Windows Server 2012R2.
Below image showing the problem.
Get the Oracle client connection working independently of ODBC before you go further.
Go to the command/DOS prompt and then use TNSPING database-name to check that the Windows client can make a connection to Oracle (database-name is whatever the Oracle database you're working with is called).
If TNSPING can't run at all, you need to install Oracle client.
If TNSPING runs but can't locate/ping your database, proceed to set up TNSNAMES.ora until you get it to see the database.
To point to the correct location for your own TNSNAMES.ora, use the Windows environment variable TNS_ADMIN (http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_windows_TNS_ADMIN_environment_variable.htm).
Set up the content of TNSNAMES.ora with the network locations of whatever particular databases you want to work with.
Once your Oracle client configuration is correct, then you can proceed to set up ODBC data source. Put your database name as the TNS service name, and an Oracle user in the User ID field. Hopefully it will connect using the ODBC layer.
I have collected a bunch of data using my locally developed website. Now I need to analyze the data, but it seems like I cannot locate the .mdf file for the LocalDB database my website uses.
Looking at the data connection, it says myusername\localdb#abunchofnonsense.mydomainname.Models.UserDBContext.dbo. And the the connection string is data source=(localdb)\v11.0; initial catalog=mydomain.models.userdbcontext; integrated security=true.
Also, I'm using ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2013, and Entity Framework if it helps.
It's probably quite confusing what I'm trying to do here. I collected some data and need to run logistic regression with it. Now the question is how can I connect Excel to this LocalDB so I can export the data I have collected?
You can import your LocalDB tables and data directly into Excel by the option Get External Data > From Other Sources under the Data tab in Microsoft Excel (2013 to be precise) - as the following screenshot shows:
A bit late, but perhaps someone can use the answer as I found this thread when running into a similar problem:
The problem is, that the localdb uses a different provider than the "normal" SQL-Connection. You need to use the "SQL Server Native Client" (in your case version 11) to connect. The provider should be installed with the localdb - if not you can find it here
To use in Excel, just choose
"From Other Sources"
- "From Data Connection Wizard"
- "Other Advanced"
- Choose your provider
- Enter the rest of your connection details
(not tested, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work): For existing connections you can edit the connection string and add/change "Provider=SQLNCLI11.1" (of course considering your installed version)
Source: I had the same problem in Installshield where you have to change the provider manually, so I just tried in Excel.