Using Microsoft Query, you can connect to external data sources, select data from those external sources, import that data into your worksheet, and refresh the data as needed to keep your worksheet data synchronized with the data in the external sources. Types of databases that you can access You can retrieve data from several types of databases, including Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services. You can also retrieve data from Excel workbooks and from text files. Microsoft Office provides drivers that you can use to retrieve data from the following data sources: • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (OLAP provider) • Microsoft Office Access • dBASE • Microsoft FoxPro • Microsoft Office Excel • Oracle • Paradox • Text file databases You can use also ODBC drivers or data source drivers from other manufacturers to retrieve information from data sources that are not listed here, including other types of OLAP databases. For information about installing an ODBC driver or data source driver that is not listed here, check the documentation for the database, or contact your database vendor.

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On the Data tab, click New Database Query > SQL Server ODBC. Then use the dialog boxes to import the data. If you are connecting to other ODBC data sources (for example, FileMaker Pro), then you'll need to install the ODBC driver for the data source on your Mac. Viewing and editing data in a table is the most frequent task for developers but it usually requires writing a query. With Visual Studio, view and edit data in a tabular grid, filter the grid using a simple UI and save changes to your database with just a few clicks.

Selecting data from a database You retrieve data from a database by creating a query, which is a question that you ask about data stored in an external database. For example, if your data is stored in an Access database, you might want to know the sales figures for a specific product by region.

You can retrieve a part of the data by selecting only the data for the product and region that you want to analyze. With Microsoft Query, you can select the columns of data that you want and import only that data into Excel. Updating your worksheet in one operation Once you have external data in an Excel workbook, whenever your database changes, you can refresh the data to update your analysis — without having to re-create your summary reports and charts. For example, you can create a monthly sales summary and refresh it every month when the new sales figures come in. How Microsoft Query uses data sources After you set up a data source for a particular database, you can use it whenever you want to create a query to select and retrieve data from that database — without having to retype all of the connection information. Microsoft Query uses the data source to connect to the external database and to show you what data is available. After you create your query and return the data to Excel, Microsoft Query provides the Excel workbook with both the query and data source information so that you can reconnect to the database when you want to refresh the data.