Am I misunderstood somewhere?
Did you provide a sql interface to excel? are you asking a DBA to use excel instead of a real database?
For me, it seemed to be more interesting to provide an excel interface to database.
For me, it seemed to be more interesting to provide an excel interface to database.
But also, it has the option to connect to an external database. When connecting, you can pull Excel tables into the database as temp tables, do queries (or import the data from the temp tables into permanent tables), and write results back into Excel. What's more you can automate this, even without VBA.