Excel Spreadsheet Automation with the QUERY Formula

The CData Excel Add-In for SQLite provides formulas that can edit, save, and delete SQLite data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search SQLite data for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.

The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following: =CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);

This formula requires three inputs:

• Query: The declaration of the SQLite data records you want to retrieve or the modifications to be made, written in standard SQL.

• Connection: Either the connection name, such as SQLiteConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to SQLite data, separated by semicolons.

  The Database connection property must be set to a valid file path.
• ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.

Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query

The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.

1. Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search SQLite data, such as MyColumn1.
2. In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.
=CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyColumn1 = '"&B2&"'","Database="&B1&";Provider=SQLite",B3)
3. Change the filter to change the data.