Create, edit, and manage connections to external data
The Workbook Connections dialog box (Select Data > Connections) helps you manage one or more connections to external data sources in your workbook. Create, edit, refresh, and delete connections …
Introduction to data connections - Microsoft Support
A data connection that can get data from or submit data to a Web service is just like a query data connection and a submit data connection combined into a single data connection.
Change or remove a data connection - Microsoft Support
A data connection is a connection between a Microsoft Office InfoPath form and an external data source, such as a database, Web service, XML file, or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services …
Connect to (Import) external data - Microsoft Support
Connections to external data may be disabled on your computer. To connect to data when you open a workbook, you must enable data connections by using the Trust Center bar, or by putting the …
How data journeys through Excel - Microsoft Support
You can create Office Data Connection (ODC) files (.odc) by connecting to external data through the Select Data Source dialog box or by using the Data Connection Wizard to connect to new data sources.
Add a data connection to a Microsoft SQL Server database
When you add a query data connection to a database, InfoPath creates a secondary data source with data fields and groups that corresponds to the way that the data is stored in the database.
Add a data connection by using settings in a connection library
If you want users to retrieve data from this data connection after the form opens, you can add a rule to your form template that uses the data connection under a certain condition, or you can add a button …
Change the main data connection to another Microsoft Access database
This article explains how to change the main data connection in your InfoPath form template to point to a different Access database. Find links to more information about changing secondary data …
Use the Data Connection Wizard to import data into Visio
In the Welcome to the Data Connection Wizard page, click ODBC/DSN. In the Connect to ODBC Data source page, select the data source name (the user DSN) that you defined in the previous section, …
Add a database as a data source - Microsoft Support
To access a database, someone who has sufficient permissions must create the connection. This article shows you how to create a connection to a database. It also shows you how to create custom …