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I don't remember exactly how, but yeah, you can totally do that. Set up your DB as a data source or some such.

You can add many different data sources (any ODBC driver), access, sharepoint sites, etc. Its a pretty useful tool for people who are not programmers and rely on PivotTables and such.

Its surprising how effective excel can be for non-programmers.

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