{"id":1236,"date":"2015-10-09T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:36","slug":"jackpot-finally-found-answers-of-using-sql-from-an-excel-workbook-on-the-data-in-that-same-workbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/jackpot-finally-found-answers-of-using-sql-from-an-excel-workbook-on-the-data-in-that-same-workbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackpot &#8211; finally found answers of using SQL from an Excel workbook on the data IN THAT SAME workbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order of usefulness here are a set of links for myself to fully investigate. I did this before but if you use the wrong key words in Google &#8211; you pull up pupkis &#8211; now I used a different set of keywords and I pulled up a goldmine. \u00a0Here they are in order of usefulness or in order of what I will try first. I want a solution with the least hassle for my customers to install on their own computers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/Add-a-query-to-an-Excel-worksheet-Power-Query-ca69e0f0-3db1-4493-900c-6279bef08df4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power Query<\/a> &#8211; a Business Intelligence (BI) MS Excel plug in from Microsoft<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.databasejournal.com\/sqletc\/getting-started-with-microsoft-power-query-for-excel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power Query from someone else&#8217;s experience\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/8756802\/excel-function-to-make-sql-like-queries-on-worksheet-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A plug in made by someone else that exposes .net functions to be used right in the queries<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>it is called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thingiequery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/thingiequery.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/exceluser.com\/formulas\/msquery-excel-relational-data.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using MSQuery &#8211; but it requires setup outside Excel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xltools.net\/sql-queries-in-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SQL Queries tool<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order of usefulness here are a set of links for myself to fully investigate. 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