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- From: hyu@eng.umd.edu (Henry K. Yu)
- Subject: Updating EXTERNAL databases through DAL in Excel
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.000153.27490@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 00:01:53 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
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- Keywords: DAL, Excel, Oracle
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- Does anyone know if it is possible to have Excel update External database
- through DAL on the Mac? It can query and paste data from the External
- database with no problem. But, I can't find any documentation as to if it
- is possible at all. The external database is an Oracle 6 database on a VAX.
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- I tried issuing the SQL statement 'insert into emp values (...);' in the
- query tool of Excel. It doesn't work that way.
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- I tried using the Data Form of Excel also. Excel complains that Forms can't
- be used with External database.
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- If it is not possible directly, has anyone tried writing a Macro of some kind?
- Any hint or example or information is very much appreciated.
-
- Happy New Year,
- hyu
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- hyu@eng.umd.edu
- hyu@author.gsfc.nasa.gov
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