If you have a large data source, such as an Access database, a SQL Server database or even a large text file, you can also retrieve data from it using Excel. Using SQL statements in Excel enables ...

I have visions of regularly dumping and clearing Windows event logs and storing them in the medium-long term in a SQL database.Why? So I can query them -"Show me all previous occurances of this ...

For example, you could query to find and extract all records that contained sales greater $1000 but less than $5000—but only on flat files (only one database matrix).