Newbie on SQL & Excel

I'm new to SQL but not Excel
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I was given a Excel spreadsheet with Employee names. I have a large
database with a Personal Table with Employee names and a whole list of
other tables that I'm used to running queries. I'm still new to
queries.
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I can run queries using the Pers_Table with employees and other
tables. How can I import the Excel sheet and use it as the Pers table
with only the names of the 10 employees listed in the Mainframe export
of Employees.
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My files:
Mainframe.xls for 10 mainframe users.
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My tables:
Auth_id for user id's
CostCtr for Cost center codes
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I'm attempting to do the above in MS Access.
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Is there a way to do the above via SQuirreL SQL(an open-source Java
SQL Client program) on a DB2 database?
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Thanks..
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Ty wrote:>>>>>>>>
I'm not clear on what you are trying to accomplish, but you can query
most major SQL databases (including DB2) directly from Excel using a
little VBA and ADO. I can posts links to examples if you desire.
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I'm trying to restrict my query to the list of names in the Excel s/
s(spreadsheet).
Here are some steps given to me. I will attempt to do this:
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Drag a common field (perhaps EmployeeID) from the Excel table to the
Pers_Table.
This operation is called "creating an inner join". Run the query. It
will now restrict the query to the list in the Excel file.

Ty wrote:
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Now I understand. Unfortunately I have never used SQuirreL, but I
just looked at their website and looks like the kind of thing that
SQuirreL should be able to accomplish. I still think that it would
be less coding to use ADO and have the join returned as an ADO resultset.
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-Philip

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OK.. I might try that. What examples do you have?