On 5/21/10 3:41 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > Reading straight into Excel would be great. I tried it on my machine (Excel > 2008 > on Macintosh) and discovered that I need a third-party ODBC driver. The two > third-parties that were recommend charge for the driver. Does Excel on > Microsoft > Windows require a third-party driver for this as well? Are there any free > versions? My client would be more interested in my installing phpMyAdmin and > using that to generate reports before spending money on a driver.
here is where you would get the odbc driver from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.1.html#downloads Then you need to setup the driver and create the connector for excel or access ot use. http://www.automateexcel.com/2005/11/01/connect_excel_to_mysql_database/comment-page-1/ -- thebigdog _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
