How to Use SQL Statements in MS Excel. With most Excel spreadsheets, you enter data manually into cells and then use formulas or other functions to analyze it or perform calculations.

The query gets just the information you want from Oracle -- customer lists, stock numbers or sales records -- and prepares an Excel spreadsheet file from the data.

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components.

n the Java Q&A entitled "It's Excel-lent," I presented a method for reading Microsoft Excel documents via JDBC.