totally lame Excel question

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:16 pm

I testing out connecting to a database from Lotus notes with some queries. So, thinking simply, I just wanted to create an Excel database. I run the one query that tells me that lists the labels in a table. then I run to see whats in the table and it says there's NOTHING in the table. so, what the fuk? then, in Excel, I tried to get external data by running a query on the Excel database, and it says there are no visible tables in the database. I already added the database in the ODBC configuration. thoughts?

monkeyA · Post by **monkeyA** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:45 pm

Lotus Notes??? what kind of 3rd world bank do you work for!?

Are you doing this in VBA or by going Data....Import External Data... New Database Query ? (or whatever the options are in your 3rd world version of excel)

manta · Post by **manta** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:26 pm

Nonius,

Sorry for the lame question, but did you try the example:

Uselsx "*LSXODBC"

Sub Initialize

   Dim con As New ODBCConnection

   Dim qry As New ODBCQuery

   Dim result As New ODBCResultSet

   Dim firstName As String

   Dim lastName As String

   Dim msg As String

   Set qry.Connection = con

   Set result.Query = qry

   con.ConnectTo("Data source name")

   qry.SQL = "SELECT * FROM excel_sheet"

   result.Execute

   msg = "Results:" & Chr(10)

   If result.IsResultSetAvailable Then

      Do

         result.NextRow

         firstName = result.GetValue("first column", _firstName)

         lastName = result.GetValue("second column", _lastName)

         msg = msg & Chr(10) & firstName & " " & _lastName

      Loop Until result.IsEndOfData

      Messagebox msg,, "Results"

      result.Close(DB_CLOSE)

   Else

      Messagebox "Cannot get result set"

      Exit Sub

   End If

   con.Disconnect

End Sub

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:45 pm

that is the identical code EXCEPT for.....

qry.SQL = "SELECT * FROM excel_sheet"

I have

qry.SQL = "SELECT * FROM Records"

where Records is the name of my sheet.

Graeme · Post by **Graeme** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 9:41 pm

You might need to say (indeed, you might have meant)

"SELECT * FROM sheets("" & Record & "")"

Also, you might check that you are 'with' the workbook, even if there is only one in play.

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:32 pm

I'll try that Graeme, then I'll go and kill some Lotus Notes people if it doesn't work.

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:17 am

didn't work.

jungle · Post by **jungle** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:24 pm

I have a totally lame Excel question that doesn't merit its own thread. Is there a way to label a single data point in a time series? I Googled this but didn't get any useful answers. I know the 'create another series' trick but it makes the chart visually messy.

Hansi · Post by **Hansi** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:14 pm

Label or tooltip? If label how about just inserting a textbox drag it to it's place and then group them?

YukaRedux · Post by **YukaRedux** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:36 am

Click on the chart and select the entire series. Then click on the datapoint you wish to label, so that just that datapoint is now selected. Then right-click the datapoint, hit "Add Data Label" and presto, the datapoint value appears. Right-click the new label, and hit "Format Data Label" to add the Series Name and Category Name as needed.

Hope that's what you wanted (Excel 2007, BTW).