How do we connect a Microsoft Excel to SQL Server

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Stratos Matzouranis

The journey began in 2008 where I officially started working in the field of IT (IT). Starting the first semester of school I realized a special attraction towards databases and automation. I have been involved with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server / Oracle Database, data analysis and automations using the command line (CLI), Visual Basic for Applications and Python. Through years of experience I have developed these capabilities so that I can make my life easier. For me, the purpose of every IT guy and every office worker is to have the knowledge so that through tools he can work a little but produce a lot. Through this his website DataPlatform.gr I try to offer knowledge and propose solutions to everyday problems.

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The Excel of Microsoft although we use it every day and it is one of the most well-known and oldest Microsoft programs, it hides many possibilities.

In this article we will see how to connect a base of it SQL Server with Excel without ODBC and without even having to enter a code since this particular method allows us to save it inside the document.

First, open Excel and go to Data – From Other Sources – From SQL Server

Fill in the server name and the user.

We select the table we want although we can write a query afterwards and change it.

Select Save password in file and Finish.

Ready! He brought us the board entries. The Refresh All option reloads the data.

We choose under Refresh All – Connection Properties…

By selecting Save password, the password to access the database can be saved in Excel.

Of course we do not forget for security reasons to create users with minimum rights exclusively for this use.

By selecting Command Type in SQL we can write SQL in the Command text field.

We see the data we requested with the SQL query was returned.