How to connect Google Sheets to Database

Question

I\'m trying to auto-populate some raw data on a sheet in my google sheets file with a query.

It doesn\'t look like sheets has any built in functionality to do so lik

Answer 1

This is the sample code to how read data from a SQL Server instance and insert them in Google Sheet. The code creates a menu item to re-load data, and each time clears the content while it keeps the format.

function onOpen() {

var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();

var menuItems = [
    {name: 'Get Data', functionName: 'readData'}
];
spreadsheet.addMenu('My Functions', menuItems);
}


// Replace the variables in this block with real values.
var address = 'ip-address:port'; //ex. '10.1.1.1:1433'
var user = 'db-username';
var userPwd = 'db-password';
var db = 'db-name';

var dbUrl = 'jdbc:sqlserver://' + address + ';databaseName=' + db;


function readData() {
 var conn = Jdbc.getConnection(dbUrl, user, userPwd);


 var stmt = conn.createStatement();

 var results = stmt.executeQuery('SELECT * FROM [dbo].[User]');
 var metaData=results.getMetaData();
 var numCols = metaData.getColumnCount();

 var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
 var sheet = spreadsheet.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
 //you can use the following line to get the active sheet
 //var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();



 sheet.clearContents();

 var arr=[];

 for (var col = 0; col < numCols; col++) {
  arr.push(metaData.getColumnName(col + 1));
 }

 sheet.appendRow(arr);


 while (results.next()) {
  arr=[];

  for (var col = 0; col < numCols; col++) {

   arr.push(results.getString(col + 1));
  }
 sheet.appendRow(arr);

}

results.close();
stmt.close();

sheet.autoResizeColumns(1, numCols+1);


}