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Even though we have powerful reporting tools such as Microsoft Crystal reports and other flexible customer management applications, Microsoft Excel is still the most commonly used tool for many enterprises to analyze such as sales statistics and revenue information. Of course, this is not without reason: Excel, with its powerful and rich functions, has become an indispensable tool in the office environment.

Now, however, companies are gradually starting to store data in remote databases so that employees can read and modify data from different places. However, the inherent workflow habits are difficult to break. What should you do when your boss needs to remotely use Excel to take a look at today's sales figures in a pie chart?

It may not occur to you that you can connect Excel to a database, and it's not limited to Microsoft SQLServer. In fact, Excel can connect to all major databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and so on, as long as the database provides an ODBC driver. In this article, we will take MySQL as an example to learn how to connect Excel to MySQL.

Installing MyODBCODBC provides a standard way to perform almost all regular tasks, such as MySQL**, deletion, and selection, which means writing different drivers for different databases to interpret user commands as standard ODBC standards. MySQL has long had a specific ODBC driver available, known as MyODBC. On every computer you want to connect to MySQL using Excel, you need to install the MyODBC driver.

So, let's first download the MyODBC installer (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc)). The installation package is only 2.3m, and if you have a broadband connection, the download should be completed soon.

How to connect Excel to MySQL

Once you have finished downloading MyODBC, click the icon to start the installation. If you do not have special installation requirements, you can choose a typical installation. Click the installation button to start the installation, and when the installation is complete, click the finish button to launch the installer.

Configure MyODBC if your operating system is WindowsXP, you can open the ODBC terminal as follows: start menu  Settings  Control Panel  Management tools  MySQL data Source (ODBC).

Click the "Add" button to add a new data source and scroll the slider until you find the MySQLODBC driver. Double-click the item to begin the configuration process. The configuration window is shown in the following figure.

After filling in the options, click the "Test" button to confirm whether the driver can be connected to the MySQL. If your database server is on the same machine as Excel, using "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" as the server address may not work. Then, you can use a dot as the server address so that the driver uses a named channel instead of TCP/IP to connect to the database. If you are connecting to a remote database, don't forget to make sure that the firewall is blocking the port where you connect to MySQL (usually 3306). Finally, don't forget to use an existing legal login account. If you need to not only read the data, but also insert and update the data, make sure that the account you log in has the appropriate permissions.

Once the test connection is successful, click the "OK" button and there will be one more entry in the list of existing MySQL data sources. Next, we will connect Excel to MySQL.

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