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It means you have to convert the table to a range, remove the false headers, and recreate the table.

If you perform a query with a join operation, the column names are never displayed whether you provide aliases to the query or not.

The following illustrates the downloaded result set from the previous query: The only problem is the extraneous characters returned into the column headers of the table.

Now you can see the data in the worksheet.

Click the OK button to query and load the data into the worksheet. The default is the absolute cell reference of the top and left most cell, $A$1.

This dialog lets you select where you want to put the return result set from the query.

Having clicked the SQL View button you now have a work area where you can enter a standard SQL SELECT statement, like the one below.

If you want to enter a query, click the SQL View button.

Microsoft Query appears to be a native Power PC application that requires Rosetta to run it.

Click the Connect button to launch the Microsoft Query, which appears to be a native Power PC application that requires Rosetta to run it

The OpenLink MySQL Lite Login screen requires the user name and password.

Select a Data Source Name and click the OK button to begin a query.

After you click the Database icon, you see the following dialog.

#Power query for mac 2011 how to

The following screen shots show you how to establish a connection between Excel 2011 and MySQL, and how to query data from the MySQL database: After you configure the Data Source Name, restarting Excel 2011 is the best choice because otherwise you may see several non-fatal errors. Launching the Database icon from Excel 2011, I configured the Data Source Name, which you can find here with screen shots. Rosetta enables Power PC application to run on Intel-based Mac OS X. The only downside of this was the discovery that Microsoft’s solution requires Rosetta, like Excel 2008. Instructions for the install with screen shots are in this blog page. I opted for OpenLink Software’s ODBC Driver.

I downloaded and installed one of third party ODBC tool sets. You should take note that Microsoft’s future direction adopts Oracle ODBC, like the approach they’ve chosen with MySQL’s ODBC driver. A quick test after this, led me to discover that you still need a third party ODBC, as covered in this earlier blog. You can read about installing and configuring MySQL here.

While installing Microsoft Office is pretty trivial, installing and configuring MySQL wasn’t.

#Power query for mac 2011 mac os x

That meant installing and configuring Excel 2011 and MySQL 5.5.9 on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). I finally got around to finishing my testing of Excel 2011 querying MySQL.