I have inherited a file that calls an Access database via Msquery. I can see the query that is being used with:
Data | Import External Data | Edit Query | Query Wizard
How can I determine the Access database that the query is using for its data source?
I need grouping and then summing in either msquery or back in excel after the data has been extracted from msquery.
I have external data that i have interogated in msquery, and I would like to to sum the amount column if possible.
I have two fields, first field = account number
2nd field = amount due
the first field could contain 5 sets of the same account number, but with different amounts in the Amount Due column. I would like to sum the amounts due for each of the account numbers in one column.
If i cannot do this in msquery, how do i then go about doing it back in excel. I know i can use subtotals, but then when the data updates from the external data source.
Trying to work through tutorial on creating offline cube from an Excel file, A CompleteGuide to PivotTables: A Visual Approach, Cornell, ISBN 1-59059-432-0, pg 248. Steps I am taking:
1. Click on Data Menu
2. Import External Data
3. New Database Query
On Databases tab
4. Click on Excel Files*
5. Click on Browse Button
I migrate to the loction of the sample files I downloaded, but no files appear in the Browse Data Sources dialog window. Files of type drop down reveals only "Data Sources" (w/o quotes). I browsed the folder with Windows Explorer. There are several Excel files in the folder as well as sample, .cub and .mdb files. I do have Excel 2007 installed on the PC as well, but working through the tutroail with Excel 2003.
In pivot table field Setting > Advanced > page field option, the selection for "the query and external data source is disabled. How do i enable it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've run across something a little strange. I have a query (in, say, Workbook A) that links to a table in another Excel workbook (call it Workbook B). If somebody happens to have workbook B open (it's on a network) and I try to refresh the query, it actually opens workbook B to refresh the query. If it's not being used, it just refreshes without opening the file.
The issue is that I'm refreshing using macros, and when another workbook pops open, the macros break when they try to use other sheets and ranges and stuff. Obviously, the simple answer is to just use a whole bunch of "ThisWorkbook" statements to make it work. However, I never wanted the workbook to be open in the first place. What's more, if I refresh the macro again, an additional VBA project opens for workbook B (so, now I'd have 1 project for WB A, and 2 projects for WB B). This just seems odd.
Anyway, my question is this:
1) has anybody seen this before, or is it explainable?
2) Is there a way in VBA to determine if a file is in use prior to opening it?
I'm trying to create a simple Excel spreadsheet (not looking for Access or complex relational database stuff) to have the following:
A tab with data about a person : name, date of birth, join date, and a list of sessions they attend (eg. Monday Morning, Monday afternoon etc).
A different tab in the same sheet, or a form to select from that list of people, and allow changes to the information, and the ability to save it back to the data tab. Ability to add new people or delete people would be useful.
I am looking to create this as a basis for managing sessions, creating a register etc....
Any simple spreadsheet which I can use as a starting point, or to use as a reference in getting it established?
I have a report that was created for 2005 that contains two worksheets: a "source data" worksheet and a " pivot table" worksheet. I cleared out the 2005 data in the "source data" worksheet and replaced it with 2006 data...after this I refreshed the Pivot Table and everything seemed fine. When looking at the file size I noticed that it was almost twice its original size....upon further investigation I found that the Pivot Table was internally holding onto the old source data (the "Show" functionality of the rows/columns in the table lists the 2005 row/column headers as well as the 2006 headers....even though no data from 2005 is shown in the Pivot Table).
Does anyone know how to purge the old data from the internal Pivot Table memory?
I hope this is enough information....let me know if you need more.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Jon
I have a csv file on another drive on the network that i need to query. I believe that ms query would be the best way. I know that a DSN needs to be setup but this macro will be used by various users who wont know how to do that. thus I would like to create one via VBA every time the task needs to be run.
I haven't a clue how to do this and i need it to be explained to me in general terms with words of one syllable!
Is it possible to create a new field in MS Query which uses an IF / IIF statement to determine it's value?
I am querying an Excel file/table, and have a field called 'Mo Nm' (month name) which stores the name of the month of a sales record, with the sales value stored in 'Sale Value'.
I'm trying to create 12 new fields in my query output to report the total sales by customer by month in a single record, rather than 1 record per month, and having to then do a Pivot Table on the result.
MSQuery is using a table called Data$ (the XL file has a sheet called 'Data', which stores the XL list being queried).
I have a spreadsheet that queries another spreadsheet, using MSQuery. The query is of a named range on another workbook. What I am trying to do is change the workbook reference, to another similar workbook, with the same range name. MSQuery is not easily letting me do this. I figured there was a way to simply change the file that the created table (in MSQuery) is using. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this.
The named range is "data." This is what the SQL view looks like: ...
Here is part of the vba code for a query
"(Mr_Scrap.PART_NO='" & partno & "') AND (Mr_Scrap. DATE>={d '2006-12-25'}) AND (Mr_Scrap.DATE<={d '2007-07-04'})")
I would like to have the dates be from cells A2 and B2, but this does not work.
startdate = range("A2")
stopdate = range("B2")
"(Mr_Scrap.PART_NO='" & partno & "') AND (Mr_Scrap.DATE>=" & startdate & " ) AND (Mr_Scrap.DATE<=" & stopdate & " )")
I have an ODBC connection to a db2 database in MSQuery. I want to return the length of a string. I've tried Len(string) but it says its not in the library.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to apply formatting to only the cells returned by MSQUERY.
I do not want to apply formatting to all 65535 rows on the basis they MIGHT be used by the returned data, I only want to use those that ARE.
I am attempting to use MSQuery to extract records from an Oracle transaction table by passing user defined Date/Time field parameters.
So if the date range for the query is for Fiscal Period 10 of this year, my parameters would be:
[StartDate] = #2002/10/1#
[EndDate] = #2002/11/1#
Daily transaction activity is in the early morning hours ending at 6:00AM so my Criteria is:
Between [StartDate] + .25 and [EndDate] + .25
Note: The +.25 represents 1/4day = 6hrs (6:00AM)
If I use the hardcoded Start/End Dates, my query works fine, but if I try and
pass the dates as parameters I get "ORA-00932 inconsistent datatypes" error. And I can't seem to pass the Date/Time combination successfully....
If anyone has encountered a solution for how to pass a Date/Time Paremeter into MSQuery I would love to hear how you did it.
I'm starting to pull my few remaining hairs out!
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how to pass multiple parameters using a range of cells to MSQuery? When I try to it tells me that I can select a single cell only. Anyone know of a new and improved sql driver to use with Excel?
View 9 Replies View RelatedRunning XL07. Need to have one workbook pull data from several dozen others.
Have columns to the right that refer to the query table.
As I add in queries to other workbooks, the time to update each individual query goes up a lot; it feels as if the update time is increasing geometrically. I'm giving up after 2 hours, for query updates that used to take
I am trying to do a query against my database using MsQuery, but I am having a problem with it...
One of the tables in my database stores information as Binary (Bits) instead of actual text.... When I create the Query in MsQuery, the text is displayed as desired...but when I send it to Excel that column is not displayed..
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get it to send the column to Excel?
See attached for what I mean. The Bits column shows in MSQuery, but not in Excel.
I have a simple reporting sheet where the data for orders place is in one sheet and on the other sheet is an imput box for 'date' and it filters through and presents a table of data and two graphs for the date chosen.
I give a daily report (contents of this sheet) but I also need to leave this sheet available for anyone to open and change to another date.
I want to copy the repor sheet into a new one and email but I want the graphs to remain, not go blank when anyone changes the original sheet.
Excel 2007 / Windows 7.
I have a bar chart that was made from table 1 which has the value in it. I have another table, table 2 that has the name corresponding to the value in table 1. I want to color data points in a bar chart with a different color for each name I have in table 2. I also want to give a data label in the data points with the value I have in table 2 instead of the original data label from table 1. Is it possible to do it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedNot sure if this can be done, still a rookie at this stuff. Everything works but can something be wrote into code too change list source?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to use Data Validation that will pull data from a source list and also be able to type in additional data or just new data in same cell?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a column line chart to which I add data monthly and then have to manually update the "source data" to reflect the added data on chart. This is a rolling graph, which mean that I have to remove data for one month(from last year) and then include the new month's data. Is there any way on automating this process...like a macro or something, so once I add the data excel automatically removes one month of old data and make changes to include fresh data. Eg Currently chart is based on data from A2:F2 and I add new data to cell G2. I need something which automatically update the source data to cell B2:G2.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI created a slick little excel sheet with the data coming in automatically via Access query. It has been working fine for months. Now all of the sudden there are a bunch of cells with missing data. The weird part is it's not as if whole columns are missing data, more like 90% missing. When I go to Access and run the query all cells are populated as the should be. There have been no changes to the query at all during this time.
btw...I am running Office 2010
A web query I am trying to use to bring an online data table into my worksheet is broken. Now, instead of returning the data table nicely into my worksheet, it imports the code of the webpage, instead, and turns my worksheet into a mess.
The query used to work but there was recently an "upgrade" to the program that populates the web table and the query no longer works and just returns the code for the page, instead. I can see the html code for the table in all of the code it returns but I really need the table to import cleanly into excel.
I can't talk to the people who changed the web program.
An external data web query points to a web site that offers a foreign exchange rate calculator. In my browser, I selected the specific currency pair I need and used the resulting url in the web query. The "New Web Query" pane resolves the url correctly and allows me to select the table data I want (the little yellow arrow turns to a green check mark). However, when I hit "Import" and select the target cell, the only data returned is the parameters from the url and an error msg (This web query returned no data...). How do I get the query to pass the parameters to the website correctly?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an MS Access query that contains a parameter. The parameter is a date field, and I have configured that in the Access query. If I run the query within the MS Access user interface, it prompts me for the paramater value as expected, and runs just fine. However, I want to connect to this query from within Excel as a data source.
I have created a connection to the Access file using ODBC from within Excel. In the MS Query window, I am merely selecting all of the fields resident in the MS Access query, and returning all values. In other words, there is no selection criteria in the MS Query. I have done this many times with Access queries that DO NOT contain a parameter, and everything works fine. However, in this instance, I need to pass a parameter through to MS Access in order for the query to run. At the moment, I get the "Too Few Paramaters...1 expected" error message. This makes sense, because I haven't figured out how to pass the paramater to MS Access.
Is there a way to structure this that does not involve VB code? If so, I'd love to know how. I have tried creating parameters in MS-Query with the same name, but although I get the prompt it doesn't connect with the Access query as the source for the parameter value.
If the solution requires using code, I'm good with VB Code in Excel...is there VB for Excel code that could make this happen?
Failing that, I guess there must be (I've seen a few in my search thus far) Access VB Code that can make this work. I'm very rusty using VB with Access, so this is my least favored solution. However, if this is the only option, keep in mind that I need to pass the paramater ultimately from a user who will initiate the process using Excel.
Need the query parameters which takes the date from the cell into the query. How should I modify my query if it needs to take the date from a cell?? The bold one date should be picked from one of the cell in sheet 2.
My query is this
WEB
1
http://fc-web-phl1-101.phl1:8090/gp/...runReport.y=12
Selection=15
Formatting=None
PreFormattedTextToColumns=True
ConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne=True
SingleBlockTextImport=False
DisableDateRecognition=False
DisableRedirections=False
I can still do a pivot report against the 'saved' data. So it must be out there in a file...? I read the function GETPIVOTDATA. Based on the description, It sounds like it would work to rebuild the source data. However the examples given don't see to match up with that. I have tried playing with the command, but I really don't know what I am doing and have had no luck
Does anyone know of a way to retrieve that stored data that the pivot reports are reporting against?
I have some code that goes through some data that is imported from a database via a query.
This has been working for a few years without a problem.
I lookup and employee number on my sheet to the employee number in the database table.
this is my code that checks the employee number.
Set rs = Worksheets("Employee")
If rs. Cells(r, 2) = cells(1,1) Then 'if employee number matches
......
The problem is that now the database application has adapted an alpha option (it used to be numeric only). In order for my code to work I have to change the employee number on my sheet by putting a ' in front of it.
Example if the number was 127 I need to enter '127 in the cells.
I have a few thousand in my data.
Can I add some code to my macro so I can still enter just the number in the cells?
option 1
sourcedatastring = '\myunc\_WT_.xls'!$A$1:$CI$65536
option 2
sourcedatastring = 'L:\_WT_.xls'!$A$1:$CI$65536
using VBA i do this:-
pvtTable.SourceData = sourcedatastring
only option 2 works.. when i put a UNC drive as a sourcedata the pivot does not like it.. why? is there anyway i can solve that?
I need to put a UNC location as source data in pivottable in VBA but how?