Hello everyone,
I need to connect directly my Excel VBA macro to Oracle DB using ODBC. I can do it by creating a query table and when executed, copying required data from the worksheet, where they have been loaded, to an array in memory. I would like to know a easiest and more efficient way to do it. In the manual there is no functionable info about odbc connections.
Thanks

Hi iuridicus,

I searched google for such a thing and came up with this article about connecting excel to an oracle database.

Developers can use the OO4O In-Process Automation Server to connect to Oracle database servers and execute SQL or PL/SQL procedures through COM Automation Objects. You can also use the In-Process Server by creating a COM object for a session from its interface, "OracleInProcServer.XOraSession," and accessing subobjects, as shown in this example using Visual Basic:



With a database object, you can query records from the database or execute DDL or DML statements directly. For example, here's a VBA script that you can run from inside Microsoft Excel to fetch all the data from the EMP table into worksheet cells:



While it's possible to fetch data from an external datasource into an Excel spreadsheet through the Data/External Datasource function, this macro has much more direct control, allowing you to specify exactly how the data is read into the spreadsheet; and, because the macro doesn't use as many layers to get to the Oracle database, it should be faster. It also provides additional functionality, including the ability to store and retrieve blobs (such as images).

Here is the link to that article.

<<http://builder.com.com/5100-6388-5219076.html>>

Hope this helps.

Great Help! The connection works just as well with Ms Word-I guess obviously because most general VBA statement work across all MS Suite applications...word, excel, powerpoint... The beauty is that the Scott/tiger username/password combination can connect to any oracle db so long as the dBA has not deliberately disabled the use privileges. therefore you do not have to disclose higher privileged username and password on the VBA code.

-David

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I used the sub GetEmployees() on another table successfully. I added a line to restrict the rows to 500 viz. "If y>500" in the loop. This worked fine. Next I increased the rows to 1000. The code successfully retrieved 788 rows and stopped. I tried several times. Each time it stops at 788 rows saying that it is an object or application defined error.
When debug button in the error message is clicked it stops at this line:
Cells(y + 2, x + 1) = oraDynaSet.Fields(x).Value
Please throw light on this.
Thanks in advance for the help.

That was the case some years ago. Today, the scott/tiger demo is not automatically installed. It is not installed but can be installed in the Oracle 9 systems : the database administrator has to manually create the scott/user and start the demobld.sql script in order to build the demo.
In Oracle 10 installations, the demo is even not present on the Oracle 10 cd. If the administrator wants to create this demo, he has to type "grant connect to scott identified by tiger" in a sql window, and then he has to ftp the demobld.sql from an old computer, connect scott/tiger, and "start demobld".
If the database administrator does all these things, that means he really wants you to connect to his database. And, by the way, you can connect only with scott's privileges, you can only see your own tables ; and if you do a mistake, you are the only damaged guy.
So, the scott/tiger username/password allows you to access only to sites where people like me allow you to go, in order to help you play with Oracle before being grown enough and be independant.

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