This is a guide on how to connect an Excel sheet to a Steem Blockchain SQL Server and link Charts and pivot tables to it or create a control Dashboard

Delegating Steem Power is likely to be widely used in the next future so it may become useful a tool for tracking it with the report and data management functionalities of an Excel workbook

In a few steps we will create a tool that gets delegation history and current delegation account state from the blockchain

it is possible to change the SQL query accessing Excel objects acording to the input parameters from a range of cells in Excel

This animations below ,shows a tool to gets delegation history for given delegator and delegatees ,it also filter the historic data to show a snapshot of live delegations in real time

You are welcome to give it a try from : https://github.com/Devba/StemmDelegatingWorksheet

Steps for creating a Excel linked to the Steem blockchain

1 - Create a data source connected to the SQL server

W have to create a new data connection in Excel , the steps for this may vary depending on Excel version , but the important is to select an SQL Server type connection

Then enter the following parameters when required

Server URL :sql.steemsql.com

User : steemit

Password. : steemit

There is a great tutorial for this step , check it if you are struggling with the connectiion :https://steemit.com/steemit/@arcange/steemsql-com-how-to-create-a-steem-analytic-report-with-microsoft-excel>

One tip to avoid downloading a whole table which could slow down the queries is to the connection properties dialog and change the following parameters

Command type : SQL

Commad text : SQL query with limits or filters

something like this

2-Create the user interface

We can use excel ranges asr input parameters , then we will insert to buttons which we will link to the code below

We can use excel ranges asr input parameters

I inserted two button shapes and then set them to run macros

Update from blockchain : pulls historic delegation data from server filtering by delegator or delegatee

Summarize : shows live delegations (ignoring old delegations which have been updated)

The result data feeds a table Excel object , so we can use filtering , ordering, etc.... as well as creating pivot tables and charts

3-Set parameters to query database on works

Sorry this section is still on works

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4-Change SQL from Excel macros

This is the code which updates sql to query de database ,its inputs are 2 excel cells

We just need a few lines to launch the query and update the charts

Get Excel sample and source code

Sample Excel available below , please allow Excel to Run Macros in order to use it

https://github.com/Devba/StemmDelegatingWorksheet

Any questions , comments on the post or visit https://discord.gg/zvReFS

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Thanks for interesting in this tool. I am still updating it ...ing

Excel SQL Steem Delegation Browser 20171208