3 posts tagged with "mssql-server"

In April 2024, I wrote a small blog post about a VBA script that will connect to a MS SQL database, run a SELECT query to retrieve data and put them in an Excel worksheet.

Let's rewrite this article in a full tutorial. We'll install run a SQL Server database using Docker, download MS SQL Server Management Studio, connect to our SQL Server, create a new database with dummy data and, finally, in Excel, retrieve the list of our customers.

Imagine you can execute a query like SELECT customer_id, first_name, last_name, email FROM customers ORDER BY last_name ASC; in your Excel sheet and that Excel will connect your Microsoft SQL Server database, run the query there, get the result and put the data directly in your sheet. Would be nice, no?

Imagine your sheet has already a nice layout with colors, titles having filters enabled and f.i. has a name (like rngMyCustomers). It would be nice if the updated data still keep all the layouts and just extends the name; no?

Stop imagining, it's just so easy!

And yes, nothing less. We're going to install a Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on our machine, install SQL Server Management Studio too and we'll have fun with a small PowerShell script; all with Docker, of course.