Using Ms-Excel sheet as a Database.

Question

Hi,
I want to use MS-Excell spread sheet as a data source and insert and retrive records from it.
I want to use the spread sheet for Inserting rows and deleting rows from Java application. Can I use it from Java.sql package and use the factory methods as DriverManager and get the connetion Interface.
Can any one please help in this regrard.
Thanks in advance.
Vamshi

Answer 1

--you can try this!
try {
              Connection con=null;
              ResultSet rs=null;
              Statement stat=null;
              Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
               String myDB = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};DBQ=d:/tangofox/prac/book1.xls;"+
                               "DriverID=22;READONLY=true";
               con=DriverManager.getConnection(myDB, "", "");
               stat=con.createStatement();
               rs=stat.executeQuery("Select * from `Sheet1$`");//[Sheet1$]
               while(rs.next())
                  System.out.println (rs.getString(1));
               stat.executeUpdate("Insert into 'Sheet1$' values ('yes!')");
          rs.close();
          stat.close();
          con.close();
         catch (Exception err) {
         }