Oracle excel to database

In this oracle tutorial, we will learn how to connect excel to an oracle database. also, we will cover these topics.

• Connect Excel to Oracle Database
• Connect Excel to Oracle Database 12c
• Excel Connect to Oracle Database without ODBC
• Excel Connect to Oracle Database with ODBC
• Excel Connect to Oracle Database using OLED
• Excel Connection String to Oracle Database
• Can you link excel to Oracle Database

In this section, we will learn how to connect Excel to Oracle Database without ODBC.

• Microsoft Excel has built-in feature of connecting excel to oracle database and we show show you how to use it.
• Once the connection is established, you will be able to access all the files in the oracle database of that common particular user.
• In our case, c##sqlserverguides is the name of our common user name. Please note that it is mandatory to c## as suffix while creating a user name.
• There are three things required to connect excel with the oracle database.
  • Server or SSID
  • Username
  • Password
• Default ssid is “orcl” which is also the Global Database name. In case you have changed it or created a new one then please mention that one.
• Open Microsoft Excel and click on the Data tab, from there click on the the From Database dropdown and select ‘From Oracle Database‘.

• If you encounter this error then simply click on the on the OK button. The error won’t create problem while connecting excel with the Oracle database.

• Enter the name of server or ssid here. ssid is the name of the global database created at the time of installation. In our case, it is ‘orcl’, click on the ok button to proceed.

• Excel is connected to oracle database now you can browse of all the oracle data on the microsoft excel.

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Connect Excel to Oracle Database with ODBC

In this section, we will learn how to connect excel to the oracle database on the windows operating system.

• Offline installed Excel software can only be connected to the oracle database. Web based excel won’t give option to connect with the database.
• First step in the process is we have to create a new data source on “Windows Administrative Tools” on windows operating system.

• Inside “Windows Administrative Tool” click on the ODBC Data Sources (64-bit). From the appeared prompt select “User DSN” tab and click on Add button.
• Another prompt will appear “Create New Data Source” in that prompt select “Oracle in OraDB19Home1“. This name may change in future but it will always start with the key ‘oracle’. Click on the the finish button.

• Once you clicked on the finish button in the previous option, you will see “Oracle Database Driver Configuration” window.
• Data Source Name: Name provided here will reflect in excel and you have to choose it over there.
• Description: If you want to add a little description about your database you can write it here. Description can also be treated as instruction for other users of the database.
• TNS Service Name: ‘orcl’ is the global database configured while installing the Oracle databse software. Incase you have changed it or created a new one then mention that here.
• User ID: It is optional to provide user id. You can mention the common username here.
• Click on the “Test Connection” button and provide the username and password and click on the ok button. If a prompt appear “Test Successful” that means you can move to next step now. Click on the Ok button on the “Oracle ODBC Driver Configuration” window.

• Open Microsoft Excel and click on the Data tab, from there click on the the Get Data dropdown and select ‘From Other Sources‘, click on the option “From ODBC“.

• Select the Data Source Name that we created in Oracle Odbc Driver Configuration.
• Once done, it will ask for the username and password. Enter the credential and you will see that a screen with Navigation title will appear and now you can browse your data there. This is how we can connct excel with oracle database.

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Connect Excel to Oracle Database 12c

In this section, we will learn how to connect excel to oracle database 12c on the windows operating system.

• Oracle has released various versions so far out of these 12c and 11g were most popular and widely used versions.
• Current stable long term version is Oracle database 19c and 21c is in innovation mode.
• Though 12c has been obsolete still many organisations are still using it.
• Steps to connect excel to oracle database 12c is similar to oracle database 19c. So you can follow section section “Connect Excel to Oracle Database with ODBC” of this tutorial.

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Excel Connect to Oracle Database without ODBC

In this section, we will learn how to connect excel connect to the oracle database without ODBC on the windows operating system.

• Most of the connection between microsoft excel and oracle database are established using ODBC.
• This type of connections are established in previous versions of microsoft excel when there was no option for from connecting oracle directly with excel.
• In new versions there is already option to connect with oracle database as you can see in the below image.

• In case this option is not available then using oled you can connect with the database.
• to see practical implementation of excel connect to oracle database with oled visit the first section of this tutorial ” Connect Excel to Oracle Database”.

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Excel Connect to Oracle Database using OLED

In this section, we will learn how excel connects to an oracle database using OLED in the Microsoft Windows operating system.

• Open Microsoft Excel and click on the Data tab, from there click on the the Get Data dropdown, now click on ‘From Other Sources‘ and select From OLEDB.

• In the connection string prompt enter the below code. In our case ‘orcl’ is the name of our global database so we have set source=orcl.

provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle.1;data source=orcl

• After entering the above code click on the build button a new promot will appear “Data Link Properties”. Enter the user name and password for the user you want to connect with. In our case we are connecting with “c##sqlserverguides”.
• Once filled all the required information (username & password) click on “Test connection” button. If Test connection succeeded click on ok for all the three screens.

• New prompt will appear immedietly after clicking on ok button of “From OLE
  DB” window.
• Enter username and password one last time and click on connect. It may take few seconds then excel will be connected to oracle database.

• Below is the window that will appear on the successful establishment of the connection. You will be able to access all the files, folder and tables available inside the connected user.

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Excel Connection String to Oracle Database

In this section, we will learn how to establish an excel connection string to an oracle database.

• While connecting excel to oracle database you must have noticed ‘Credential Connection String’ box that might be optional in some cases.
• Excel Connection String holds all the information about the connecting database like host, hostname, port, IP address, server type and service name.
• while connecting excel to oracle database using oled we have to provide excel connection string that you can us the below excel connection string to connect with oracle databse.

provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle.1;data source=orcl

• If you are advance user and want to connect via oracle database on server than you can configure the setting using the below code.

provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle.1;data source=
             ("
              DESCRIPTION = 
                 (ADDRESS = 
                   (PROTOCOL = TCP)
                   (HOST = localhost)
                   (PORT = 1521)
                 ) 
              (CONNECT_DATA = 
                  (SERVER = DEDICATED) 
                  (SERVICE_NAME = orcl))
              )"

Can you link excel to Oracle Database

In this section, we will answer the question “can you link excel to the oracle database“.

• Yes, we can link excel to oracle database and there are multiple ways of doing that.
• In this tutorial, we have explained 3 mojor ways that are widely used to connect excel to oracle database.
  • Connect excel to oracle database
  • Excel Connect to Oracle Database with ODBC
  • Excel Connect to Oracle Database using OLED
• Visit each section to learn more about how to connect excel with oracle database.

In this tutorial, we have learned how to connect excel to an oracle database. Also, we have covered these topics.

• Connect Excel to Oracle Database
• Connect Excel to Oracle Database 12c
• Excel Connect to Oracle Database without ODBC
• Excel Connect to Oracle Database using OLED
• Excel Connection String to Oracle Database
• Can you link excel to Oracle Database

I’ve been thinking about it for quite a long time and never really had time to implement it, but it’s finally there : a pipelined table interface to read an Excel file (.xlsx) as if it were an external table.

It’s entirely implemented in PL/SQL using an object type (for the ODCI routines) and a package supporting the core functionalities.
Available for download on GitHub :

/mbleron/ExcelTable

Usage

ExcelTable.getRows table function :

This is the actual SQL interface, to be used in conjunction with the TABLE operator.
It returns an ANYDATASET instance whose structure is defined by the p_cols parameter.

  function getRows (
    p_file   in  blob
  , p_sheet  in  varchar2
  , p_cols   in  varchar2
  , p_range  in  varchar2 default null
  ) 
  return anydataset pipelined
  using ExcelTableImpl;

Arg	Data type	Desc	Mandatory
p_file	BLOB	Input Excel file in Office Open XML format (.xlsx or .xlsm). A helper function (ExcelTable.getFile) is available to directly reference the file from a directory.	Yes
p_sheet	VARCHAR2	Worksheet name	Yes
p_cols	VARCHAR2	Column list (see specs below)	Yes
p_range	VARCHAR2	Excel-like range expression that defines the table boundaries in the worksheet (see specs below)	No

Range syntax specification

 range_expr ::= ( cell_ref [ ":" cell_ref ] | col_ref ":" col_ref | row_ref ":" row_ref )
 cell_ref   ::= col_ref row_ref
 col_ref    ::= { "A".."Z" }
 row_ref    ::= integer

If the range is empty, the table implicitly starts at cell A1.

Otherwise, there are four ways to specify the table range :

• Range of rows : '1:100'
  In this case the range of columns implicitly starts at A.
• Range of columns : 'B:E'
  In this case the range of rows implicitly starts at 1.
• Range of cells (top-left to bottom-right) : 'B2:F150'
• Single cell anchor (top-left cell) : 'C3'

Columns syntax specification

The syntax is similar to the column list in a CREATE TABLE statement, with a couple of specifics :

 column_list    ::= column_expr { "," column_expr }
 column_expr    ::= ( identifier datatype [ "column" string_literal ] | identifier for_ordinality )
 datatype       ::= ( number_expr | varchar2_expr | date_expr | clob_expr )
 number_expr    ::= "number" [ "(" ( integer | "*" ) [ "," [ "-" ] integer ] ")" ]
 varchar2_expr  ::= "varchar2" "(" integer [ "char" | "byte" ] ")"
 date_expr      ::= "date" [ "format" string_literal ]
 clob_expr      ::= "clob"
 for_ordinality ::= "for" "ordinality"
 identifier     ::= """ { char } """
 string_literal ::= "'" { char } "'"

Column names must be declared using a quoted identifier.

Supported data types are :

• NUMBER – with optional precision and scale specs
• VARCHAR2 – including CHAR/BYTE semantics
  Values larger than the maximum length declared are silently truncated and no error is reported.
• DATE – with optional format mask
  The format mask is used if the value is stored as text in the spreadsheet, otherwise the date value is assumed to be stored as date in Excel’s internal serial format.
• CLOB

A special “FOR ORDINALITY” clause (like XMLTABLE or JSON_TABLE’s one) is also available to autogenerate a sequence number.

Each column definition (except for the one qualified with FOR ORDINALITY) may be complemented with an optional “COLUMN” clause to explicitly target a named column in the spreadsheet, instead of relying on the order of the declarations (relative to the range).
Positional and named column definitions cannot be mixed.

For instance :

  "RN"    for ordinality
, "COL1"  number
, "COL2"  varchar2(10)
, "COL3"  varchar2(4000)
, "COL4"  date           format 'YYYY-MM-DD'
, "COL5"  number(10,2)
, "COL6"  varchar2(5)

  "COL1"  number        column 'A'
, "COL2"  varchar2(10)  column 'C'
, "COL3"  clob          column 'D'

Examples

Using this sample file :

1- Loading all six columns, starting at cell A2, in order to skip the header :

SQL> select t.*
  2  from table(
  3         ExcelTable.getRows(
  4           ExcelTable.getFile('TMP_DIR','ooxdata3.xlsx')
  5         , 'DataSource'
  6         , ' "SRNO"    number
  7           , "NAME"    varchar2(10)
  8           , "VAL"     number
  9           , "DT"      date
 10           , "SPARE1"  varchar2(6)
 11           , "SPARE2"  varchar2(6)'
 12         , 'A2'
 13         )
 14       ) t
 15  ;

      SRNO NAME              VAL DT                  SPARE1 SPARE2
---------- ---------- ---------- ------------------- ------ ------
         1 LINE-00001 66916.2986 13/10/1923 11:45:52
         2 LINE-00002 96701.3427 05/09/1906 10:12:35
         3 LINE-00003 68778.8698 23/01/1911 09:26:22        OK
         4 LINE-00004  95110.028 03/05/1907 13:52:30        OK
         5 LINE-00005 62561.5708 04/04/1927 18:10:39
         6 LINE-00006 28677.1166 11/07/1923 15:10:59        OK
         7 LINE-00007 16141.0202 20/11/1902 02:02:24
         8 LINE-00008 80362.6256 19/09/1910 14:06:42
         9 LINE-00009 10384.1973 16/07/1902 04:54:12
        10 LINE-00010  5266.9097 08/08/1921 11:51:34
        11 LINE-00011 12513.0679 01/07/1908 21:53:55
        12 LINE-00012 66596.9707 22/03/1913 05:20:10

...

        95 LINE-00095 96274.2193 08/04/1914 22:48:31
        96 LINE-00096  29783.146 06/04/1915 23:49:23
        97 LINE-00097 19857.7661 16/02/1909 21:21:52
        98 LINE-00098 19504.3969 05/12/1917 01:56:05
        99 LINE-00099 98675.8673 05/06/1906 17:41:10
       100 LINE-00100 24288.2885 22/07/1920 13:25:59

100 rows selected.

2- Loading columns B and F only, from rows 2 to 10, with a generated sequence :

SQL> select t.*
  2  from table(
  3         ExcelTable.getRows(
  4           ExcelTable.getFile('TMP_DIR','ooxdata3.xlsx')
  5         , 'DataSource'
  6         , q'{
  7             "R_NUM"   for ordinality
  8           , "NAME"    varchar2(10) column 'B'
  9           , "SPARE2"  varchar2(6)  column 'F'
 10           }'
 11         , '2:10'
 12         )
 13       ) t
 14  ;

     R_NUM NAME       SPARE2
---------- ---------- ------
         1 LINE-00001
         2 LINE-00002
         3 LINE-00003 OK
         4 LINE-00004 OK
         5 LINE-00005
         6 LINE-00006 OK
         7 LINE-00007
         8 LINE-00008
         9 LINE-00009

9 rows selected.