Databases you can access
Microsoft Office provides drivers that you can use to retrieve data from the following data sources:
- Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services (OLAP provider) 7.0 and later
- Microsoft Access 2000 and later
- dBASE
- Microsoft FoxPro
- Microsoft Excel
- Oracle
- Paradox
- SQL Server
- Text file databases
Note You can use ODBC drivers or data source drivers from other manufacturers to get information from other types of databases that are not listed here, including other types of OLAP databases. For information about installing an ODBC driver or data source driver that is not listed here, see the documentation for the database, or contact your database vendor.