How to Populate a Trading Database with Refinitiv, Excel, and SQL Server—Update 1 The Excel STOCKHISTORY function downloads historical market data—such as stock prices and index values—directly into Excel worksheets from LSEG Data & Analytics (formerly Refinitiv). The “ How to Populate a Trading Database with Refinitiv, Excel, and SQL Server ” post summarizes and demonstrates a three-step process for building a data source inside SQL Server for historical stock prices and/or indexes. The three steps are as follows. Populate one worksheet tab per ticker with historical prices using Excel’s STOCKHISTORY function. Save each worksheet tab as a CSV file—one CSV per ticker. Bulk insert the CSV files into a tall SQL Server table indexed by ticker and date. While the three steps worked when properly executed, it was found that Excel formatting issues could lead to processing errors if not manually resolved. Additionally, the T-SQL code in the third step required ...