Newbie on SQL & Excel

[Ty]

I'm new to SQL but not Excel

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.

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.

My files:
Mainframe.xls for 10 mainframe users.

My tables:
Auth_id for user id's
CostCtr for Cost center codes

I'm attempting to do the above in MS Access.

Is there a way to do the above via SQuirreL SQL(an open-source Java
SQL Client program) on a DB2 database?

Thanks..

[Philip Wright]

Ty wrote:

I'm new to SQL but not Excel

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.

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.

My files:
Mainframe.xls for 10 mainframe users.

My tables:
Auth_id for user id's
CostCtr for Cost center codes

I'm attempting to do the above in MS Access.

Is there a way to do the above via SQuirreL SQL(an open-source Java
SQL Client program) on a DB2 database?

Thanks..

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.

-Philip

[Ty]

On Jul 17, 9:04*am, Philip Wright <[e-mail]:

Ty wrote:

I'm new to SQL but not Excel

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.

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.

My files:
Mainframe.xls for 10 mainframe users.

My tables:
Auth_id for user id's
CostCtr for Cost center codes

I'm attempting to do the above in MS Access.

Is there a way to do the above via SQuirreL SQL(an open-source Java
SQL Client program) on a DB2 database?

Thanks..

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:

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.

[Philip Wright]

Ty wrote:

>
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:

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.

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.

-Philip

[Ty]

On Jul 17, 6:46*pm, Philip Wright <[e-mail]:

Ty wrote:

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:

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.

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.

-Philip

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

[Philip Wright]

Ty wrote:

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

I have a good O'Reilly book called "ADO: ActiveX Data Objects"
by Jason T. Roff ISBN: 1-56592-415-0

There are also good examples at Microsoft and IBM:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247412/EN-US/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278973/EN-US/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db...0302hasin.html

There a couple of good ADO newsgroups too:
microsoft.public.data.ado
microsoft.public.vb.database.ado

-Philip