Connection Property

Connection Property

         Example         Applies To

Returns or sets a string that contains one of the following: OLE DB settings that enable Microsoft Excel to connect to an OLE DB data source; ODBC settings that enable Microsoft Excel to connect to an ODBC data source; a URL that enables Microsoft Excel to connect to a Web data source; the path to and file name of a text file, or the path to and file name of a file that specifies a database or Web query. Read/write Variant.

Remarks

Setting the Connection property doesn’t immediately initiate the connection to the data source. You must use the Refresh method to make the connection and retrieve the data.

When using an offline cube file, set the UseLocalConnection property to True and use the LocalConnection property instead of the Connection property.

For more information about the connection string syntax, see the Add method of the QueryTables collection and the Add method of the PivotCaches collection.

For improved performance, you may choose to access a data source directly by using the Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) library instead. For more information about ActiveX Data Objects, see Welcome To ADO.