Excel FireDAC Components

Read, Write, & Update Excel from Delphi and C++ Builder Apps

The fastest and easiest way to connect Delphi and C++ Builder Apps with live Microsoft Excel data.


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The Excel FireDAC Component enables user to easily connect to Excel data from Delphi & C++ Builder applications. Easily connect Delphi & C++Builder Apps with real-time data from Excel spreadsheets. Use Excel to manage the data that powers your applications.

Features

  • Access Excel data either as an entire worksheet or from discrete ranges of data within a worksheet
  • Represent discrete blocks of data as tables through automatic detection or by manually specifying ranges of data
  • Optionally specify if the first row of data should be used for field names
  • Read tables that are oriented horizontally or vertically
  • Support for Excel XLSX file format, 2007 and above
  • Connect to live Microsoft Excel data, for real-time data access
  • Full support for data aggregation and complex JOINs in SQL queries
  • Secure connectivity through modern cryptography, including TLS 1.2, SHA-256, ECC, etc.
  • Generate table schema automatically based on existing Microsoft Excel data or manually for greater control of the content you need

Specifications

  • Native FireDAC Components for Excel seamlessly integrate with RAD Studio
  • Comprehensive support for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, & Delete)
  • Full Unicode support for data, parameter, & metadata
  • Support for 32-bit & 64-bit operating systems
  • Requires Delphi, C++ Builder, or RAD Studio 10.2 Professional or higher


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Where can I use the Excel FireDAC Components?

FireDAC Access to Microsoft Excel

Full-featured & consistent SQL access to any supported data source through FireDAC


  • Straightforward RAD Studio Integration

    Feature-rich high-performance Data Access Components that extend Delphi & C++ Builder Apps with SaaS, NoSQL, & Big Data connectivity.

  • Pure FireDAC Components

    Based on FireDAC Universal Data Access for developing applications for multiple devices, connected to enterprise databases.

  • Replication and Caching

    Our replication and caching commands make it easy to copy data to local and cloud data store as Oracle, SQL Server, Google Cloud SQL, etc. The replication commands include many features that allow for intelligent incremental updates to cached data.

  • String, Data, Numeric SQL Functions

    The driver includes a library of 50 plus functions that can manipulate column values into the desired result. Popular examples include Regex, JSON, and XML processing functions.

  • Developer Friendly

    Full Design-time support for data operations directly directly from RAD Studio. Work with live data directly from the IDE Data Explorer and FireDAC explorer.

  • Collaborative Query Processing

    Our drivers enhance the data source's capabilities by additional client side processing, when needed, to enable analytic summaries of data such as SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN, etc.

  • Easily Customizable & Configurable

    The data model exposed by our FireDAC Components can easily be customized to add or remove tables/columns, change data types, etc. without requiring a new build. These customizations are supported at runtime using human-readable schema files that are easy to edit.

  • Enterprise-class Secure Connectivity

    Includes standard Enterprise-class security features such as TLS/SSL data encryption for all client-server communications.

Standard FireDAC Access to Excel

The Excel FireDAC Components offers the most natural way to access Excel data from any Delphi or C++ Builder application. Simply use Excel FireDAC Components objects to connect and access data just as you would access any traditional database. You will be able to use the Excel FireDAC Components through RAD Studio, in code through familiar classes, and in data controls like TDBGrid, TDBCtrlGrid, etc.

The CData FireDAC Components for Excel hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Working with the FireDAC Components, etc.

The Excel FireDAC Components has the same architecture as the native Delphi & C++ Builder FireDAC Components for SQL Server and can be accessed the same way.

For example:

FDConnection1.Name := 'ExcelConnection';
FDConnection1.DriverName := 'CData.Fire.Excel';
with FDConnection1.Params as    
	TFDPhysCDataExcelConnectionDefParams do begin
	...
end;
FDConnection1.Connected := true;
FDQuery1.Active := true;
FDQuery1.Open('select * from ExcelSheet where id = ''...''');
...


More Than Read-Only: Full Update/CRUD Support

Excel FireDAC Components goes beyond read-only functionality to deliver full support for Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD). Your end-users can interact with the data presented by the Excel FireDAC Components as easily as interacting with a database table.


FireDAC Components Performance

With traditional approaches to remote access, performance bottlenecks can spell disaster for applications. Regardless if an application is created for internal use, a commercial project, web, or mobile application, slow performance can rapidly lead to project failure. Accessing data from any remote source has the potential to create these problems. Common issues include:

  1. Network Connections - Slow network connections and latency issues are common in mobile applications.
  2. Service Delays - Delays due to service interruptions, resulting in server hardware or software updates.
  3. Large Data - Intentional or unintentional requests for large amounts of data.
  4. Disconnects - Complete loss of network connectivity.

The CData FireDAC Components for Excel solves many of these issues with support for replication queries that can be used to sync data to local databases, greatly improving the performance and dramatically reduce application bottlenecks.

More information about FireDAC Components performance capabilities are available in the included documentation.