Up front caveat, I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of
thing, but, ...
On 2006.6.8, at 02:36 AM, Mike Schienle wrote:
Celeste Suliin Burris wrote:
I'm a bit confused as to why you need to use ODBC. I just connect to
the
remote MySQL server via the DBI when I'm using Perl. I have my Linux
machine
running MySQL 5.0.
Hi Celeste -
I'm working on a program that will update a database throughout the
day and provide the customer with a spreadsheet of the results. I'd
rather have the customer be able to open the spreadsheet any time and
get the latest data rather than having to create a new spreadsheet
each time the data updates. I should be able to accomplish that by
putting the ODBC connections directly in the spreadsheet.
Why?
Would it make more sense, perchance, to use a web browser as your
front-end instead of MSOffice?
I have no problem doing the DBI connection from Perl, which is what
I've been doing for quite some time. What I'm after is a way to do the
connection from an Excel spreadsheet that has been written by
WriteExcel.
How often does this spreadsheet need to be (mechanically, I assume)
rebuilt? (That's the only reason I can think of for building such a
spreadsheet from a perl script.)
The program is for multiple customers, so I want/need to be able to
write a spreadsheet that is for the particular customer. I might be
able to do this as an Excel template, also. That would be Plan B or C.
Oh. That's another reason, I suppose.
My guess is you're going to be flying by the seat of your pants on this
project with no radio.
I think I'd try to sell the customers on pushing the interface to
MSOffice back a ways, doing the tables in HTML on a local-access-only
server, and only dumping the relatively static results to Excel at the
stage where things go to the archive. (Nursing the customers off of
MSOffice as an archive format is also something I'd recommend, but one
thing at a time.)
From: Mike Schienle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Custom Visuals, LLC
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:51:36 +0100
To: macosx@perl.org
Subject: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and ODBC
Hi all -
I need to write some Excel files with ODBC access to a MySQL
database.
I've used Spreadsheet::WriteExcel in the past for writing formulas,
formatting, etc., with no problems, but the ODBC connection is new to
me. I tried it manually (just opening a blank spreadsheet and
connecting
to a remote MySQL server) last night using Actual's ODBC client demo
and
that worked fine. The WriteExcel docs are a bit vague [to me] on
connecting to an ODBC source, though.
Has anyone done this via Spreadsheet::WriteExcel? Do you mind passing
along a couple hints? Would this require any customer/client to have
an
ODBC client on their system for this to work? If so, I may just go
with
static data and have the customer pick up a new spreadsheet each
time.
Also, as mentioned above I'm using Actual's ODBC client. Is there a
better client out there? Or an Open Source one that's competitive?
Thanks.
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Mike Schienle
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Mike Schienle
