How to select data in excel

Question

Hi,
I am writing a program which selects data from MS Excel, below is the excel sheet colums
A     B     C
x     y     z
When I run the below program i get an error for the line :
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select B from [Sheet1$] where A=x");
Connection Failedjava.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] Too few parameters. Expected 1.
Can you please advice how to fix this code ?
package app;
import java.sql.*;
public class TestExcel {
public TestExcel() {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Excel Files;DBQ=C:\\excel\\expenses1.xls; READONLY=0;", "", "");
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select B from [Sheet1$] where A=x");
while (rs.next()){
String a = rs.getString(1);
System.out.println(a);
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Connection Failed" + e);
Thx

Answer 1

That error is the driver's way of saying that you have used table names that don't exist in the database, or column names that don't exist in the table. There's only one such erroneous name in the query.