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Pull data, automate spreadsheets, and more with the QUERY formula.
The CData Excel Add-In for Redis provides formulas that can edit, save, and delete Redis data. The following three steps show how you can automate the following task: Search Redis data for a user-specified value and then organize the results into an Excel spreadsheet.
The syntax of the CDATAQUERY formula is the following:
=CDATAQUERY(Query, [Connection], [Parameters], [ResultLocation]);
This formula requires three inputs:
- Query: The declaration of the Redis data records you want to retrieve or the modifications to be made, written in standard SQL.
Connection: Either the connection name, such as RedisConnection1, or a connection string. The connection string consists of the required properties for connecting to Redis data, separated by semicolons.
Set the following connection properties to connect to a Redis instance:
- Server: Set this to the name or address of the server your Redis instance is running on. You can specify the port in Port.
- Password: Set this to the password used to authenticate with a password-protected Redis instance , using the Redis AUTH command.
Set UseSSL to negotiate SSL/TLS encryption when you connect.
- ResultLocation: The cell that the output of results should start from.
Pass Spreadsheet Cells as Inputs to the Query
The procedure below results in a spreadsheet that organizes all the formula inputs in the first column.
- Define cells for the formula inputs. In addition to the connection inputs, add another input to define a criterion for a filter to be used to search Redis data, such as Country.
- In another cell, write the formula, referencing the cell values from the user input cells defined above. Single quotes are used to enclose values such as addresses that may contain spaces.
- Change the filter to change the data.
=CDATAQUERY("SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE Country = '"&B4&"'","Server="&B1&";Port="&B2&";Password="&B3&";Provider=Redis",B5)