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I wonder if this could be used to hook up something Excel-ish to a DB backend.

I use Excel frequently to model and ask "what-if" questions but I often wish I could store/retrieve information dynamically from a DB. (The ODBC connectors that Excel has leave much to be desired).

For my use case, that would be the holy grail.



This commercial solution seems to be languishing in relative obscurity: http://www.querycell.com/


Somewhat off topic, but I remembered the author of this Excel add in's "Ask HN" when it first came out ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794317 ). 2 or 3 years later, it looks like he's expanded and now has 2 software products and a SAAS ( http://www.OakFocus.net/ ), so very inspiring.




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