Query multiple worksheets with SQL command

[romanemul]

Guys,

Hello

Can anyone provide me proper syntax for searching through multiple worksheets.

I got

Sheet1:
Column1 and Column2

Sheet2:
Column1 and Column2

My question is How to search just through the Column1 in both sheets.
And oh Sheet1 has space between number and letters so its "Sheet 1"



Thanks for your replies.

 

[Lavina]

Hey, you need to find out how many Sheets u have and then make a cycle going from 1 to the amount of sheets.
You get the visible sheet amount by:
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For i = 1 to total then
sheets(i).select
(your code that searches through column)
next i

Sheets can also be referenced by number, over name

 

[romanemul]

Hello and thanks for your reply.

I know how to create a loop and cycle through the worksheets.
But my point is that i dont want to open another excel instance as the front end excel instance will be containing more and more excel and access databases /excel workbooks sources.

There must be a way to do that through one complex SQL query statement.
I tried to refer them through the dot notation "SELECT [Sheet_1$].[Column1] FROM [Sheet1$] WHERE" etc.

Im confused where to use dot notation and/or where refer with dollar signs.

 

[romanemul]

Going to answer my own question.

The right answer was with command "UNION ALL"

so the right code was

SELECT [Columns has to match in both SELECT statements] FROM [Sheet1$] WHERE [[COLOR=#333333]Column1[/COLOR]]=" & MySearchedItem & "" & _        " UNION ALL " & _
        "SELECT [Columns has to match in both SELECT statements] FROM [Sheet2$] WHERE [[COLOR=#333333]Column1[/COLOR]]=" & MySearchedItem & "

Sorry for abusing Excel forum. But i thought it was excel question because i was querying excel sheet.

 

[Fazza]

hello,

within old thread https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/315768-creating-pivot-table-multiple-sheets.html are some posts with information

regards