How would you retrieve data *for* Excel?

  • Can you please help me make a design decision?  The requirements are that I have to regularly produce Excel spreadsheets that contain transactional performance information.  Examples of this information would be:

     

    1.)   A count of transaction type X, Y and Z

    2.)   Of each of the above transaction types, how many had a response time under 2 seconds?

     

    The Excel spreadsheets have to be laid out in a certain, unpredictable fashion (i.e. for transaction type X, the response time under 2 seconds should be shown in cell A10, the response time for transaction type Y should appear in cell D12, etc.).

     

    And yes it has to be Excel.

     

    It seems I have limited options.  I either design an Excel spreadsheet with ActiveX Marcos that go directly to the data source and retrieve the data I’m interested in, or write a stored procedure that produces a csv spreadsheet which can then be imported in to Excel.

     

    We’re using SQL Server 2000 and Excel 2000.  I have access to development tools such as Delphi, but never found the Excel programming in Delphi particularly intuitive. 

     

    Thank you for your time in advanced!

     

     

     

     

     

     


    Ah, give it a reboot, it'll be fine!

    Dan

  • Please don't cross post.

    Discussion here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=23&messageid=353763

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