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Three (4) Ways to get Data into Excel with Toad

I have been really hard on Excel lately. Excel is an excellent tool. Tools can be misused and abused, but it’s not their fault. I should know this being an advocate for Toad, but I digress.

Updated on 1/5/2011 to include 4th Method and add note on ‘Display all results in grid’ option.

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Access of Evil

A play on words – the Axis of Evil, three countries that foster or promote terrorism. This is not a history lesson or political discussion, go here for that.

So what is the Access of Evil? I would propose that the following practices conspire to bring down any well-ordered collection of data:

MS Access
MS Excel
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Excel and Oracle? Yes, but Should You?

Microsoft has a lot to be proud of. They helped pioneer desktop computing. They have very successful platforms like SQL Server and Sharepoint. They are even working on a new mobile phone that doesn’t support copy and paste. But, I would argue their most popular product in use today is Excel.

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