Question

I am looking for an example of how to query a MySQL database using Excel VBA.

I am able to use Data \ From Other Sources \ From Microsoft Query to import data from the db, but what I am actually looking for is a way not to import it to a spreadsheet directly, but rather to a data structure in VBA for further manipulation before I output the result to the spreadsheet. How can I do this?

Answer 1

to connect:

conMySQL.ConnectionString = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver};" & "SERVER=" & server & ";" & " DATABASE=" & database & ";" & "UID=" & login_user & ";PWD=" & password & "; OPTION=3; PORT=" & port & ";Connect Timeout=20;"

    'open the connection
    conMySQL.Open

then to query:

strSQL = "SELECT x FROM some_table"
MySQL.Query (strSQL)

With rsTemporary
      Do Until .EOF
          recordCount = recordCount + 1
          some_variable = ![supcode]
          rsTemporary.MoveNext
      Loop
End With
        MySQL.closeCon