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Use CData Connect Cloud to gain access to live Azure Table data from your Excel spreadsheets.
Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with CData Connect Cloud, you gain immediate access to Azure Table data directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Azure Table in your Connect Cloud instance and access and update live Azure Table data in Excel spreadsheets.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Azure Table, allowing you to easily access live Azure Table data in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect Cloud Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Azure Table, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Azure Table data.
This setup requires a CData Connect Cloud instance and the CData Connect Cloud Add-In for Excel. To get started, sign up a free trial of Connect Cloud and install the free Connect Cloud Excel Add-In.
Configure Azure Table Connectivity for Excel
Connectivity to Azure Table from Excel is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Azure Table data from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Azure Table connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Azure Table" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Azure Table.
Specify your AccessKey and your Account to connect. Set the Account property to the Storage Account Name and set AccessKey to one of the Access Keys. Either the Primary or Secondary Access Keys can be used. To obtain these values, navigate to the Storage Accounts blade in the Azure portal. You can obtain the access key by selecting your account and clicking Access Keys in the Settings section.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Azure Table Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Azure Table data from Excel.
Access Live Azure Table Data in Excel
The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect Cloud from Excel to access live Azure Table data.
- Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
- Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
- Search for CData Connect Cloud Add-In and install the Add-in.
- Click Data and open the CData Connect Cloud Add-In.
- In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect Cloud instance
- In the CData Connect Cloud panel in Excel, click Import
- Choose a Connection (e.g. AzureTables1), Table (e.g. NorthwindProducts), and Columns to import
- Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit
- Click Execute to import the data
Update Azure Table Data from Excel
In addition to viewing Azure Table data in Excel, CData Connect Cloud also lets you update and delete Azure Table data. Begin by importing data (as described above).
- Update any cell or cells with changes you want to push to Azure Table (your changes will be in red)
- In the CData Connect Cloud Add-In panel, select Update
- Optionally highlight the cell(s) you wish to update and select an update option ("Update All" or "Update Selected")
- Click Execute to push the updates to Azure Table
A notification will appear when the update is complete
Live Access to Azure Table Data from Cloud Applications
New, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Azure Table data from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.
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