Using an Excel Pivot Table with a MySQL database

Posted by schone on June 15th, 2008

This tutorial will run through how you use an Excel Pivot Table with a MySQL database, before we begin please check out my Configuring your MySQL ODBC driver as this takes you through a step by step guide on how to set up an ODBC connection (for MySQL), if you have already done this and your connection has tested successfully - lets move on!

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Configuring your MySQL ODBC driver

Posted by schone on June 12th, 2008

In my tutorials on how to connect a Pivot Table to an Access database and an Oracle database I have gone through how you can set up an ODBC connection in great detail however I know a lot of people are starting to use MySQL a lot more and would like to use Office products such as Excel and Access with MySQL as well. This tutorial looks at how to configure an ODBC connection to a MySQL database which is either:

  • Hosted locally
  • or, hosted on a server on a LAN

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