I have a table in Access database and another table in Excel with a unique column called [Number]
.
I would like to know how to connect to both these source together using a single OleDbConnection so that I can execute a query something like this in VB .Net.
SELECT [Sheet1$].[Number], [Sheet1$].[Vendor],[Sheet1$].[Details], ,TableinAccess.[Datefield], TableinAccess.[Agreement],TableinAccess.Comments
FROM ([Sheet1$] LEFT OUTER JOIN TableinAccess ON [Sheet1$].[Number] = TableinAccess.[Number])
Idea is to fill the Gridview with data from both source.
Eg:
Excel have below table(Sheet1),
Number Vendor Details
1 vend1 xxx
2 vend2 xxx
3 vend3 xxx
Access have below table(TableinAccess),
Number Datefield Agreement Comments
1 vend1 xxx something
2 vend2 xxx something
Number Vendor Details Datefield Agreement Comments
1 vend1 xxx vend1 xxx something
2 vend2 xxx vend2 xxx something
3 vend3 xxx null null null
You can't do what you describe because the two data sources are completely isolated from each other.
An OLEDB connection can only connect to a single "thing" (DB Server, file, etc.) at a time.
To do a JOIN, you would need to copy the Excel data to a temporary table in Access or link to it from Access, and then do the join in Access.