Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:

> Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> I have never used Firebird ODBC and don't regularly use Excel in
>> combination with ODBC, but most likely you are trying to browse for
>> databases.
>> That concept is not available in Firebird, since the server does not
>> have an overview of available database, so browsing for database simply
>> won't work, you need to specify the database yourself.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> I don't know the steps the OP used, but as soon as you configure a DSN
> entry, it will be available to excel, so you just select the Data Source
> to be used, and start querying.

Sure, but you can define ODBC connection from within Excel; and if for
instance you use SQL Server that allows you to browse the various
databases available to your user.

Mark
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