Financial Information Management Business Intelligence Putting VBA & SQL To Work

Critical Thinking  New interface  Listen to audio in video  Use windows media player  Easy meter

Financial Information Management WINIT What Is New In Technology?

Financial Information Management Accessing Enterprise Data Using Excel & ADO

Where is my Data? In a DBMS on the network In memory DATASET fastfast Speedslowbestfast Depends on bandwidth VolumemediumSmall/mediummediumVery large Accesseasy difficultmedium Backupmediumpoorn/aexcellent SecuritypoorPoor/mediumexcellentgood In a file slowslow Your local machine Server slowslow

Database Legos  Standard parts, put together in standard ways  ADO

VBA and ADO.NET  ADO = ActiveX Data Object. It is a MSFT technology to manage enterprise data  Use ADO.NET to run SQL queries on remote servers, collect the results, and present them to the user.

ADO architecture (7 Legos) Remote DataBase (financial data) Remote DataBase (financial data) Client (your machine) SQL Query string Connection string SqlConnection SqlAdapter ListObject DataSet DataTable s DataRow s DB Server SqlCommand On your Spreadsheet

Creating Software Objects Instances are declared with dim and built with the keyword new Dim myConnection As SqlClient.SqlConnection myConnection = New SqlClient.SqlConnection

Financial Information Management DEMO

Financial Information Management Homework Automating Business Intelligence at SmallBank

Suggestions  Make sure that you understand the ADO architecture diagram before coding.

You do the talking  Name, Major  Learning objectives  Things you like about the class  Things that can be improved  Attitude towards the Tournament