How to Populate a Trading Database with Refinitiv, Excel, and SQL Server—Update 2 Computer‑based trading analytics requires clean, reliable historical price data. Whether you are evaluating trading models, comparing performance across securities, or projecting future price paths, the first prerequisite is a trustworthy method for downloading and preparing historical prices from a quality data vendor. This post is the third entry in a series on transferring historical price data from Excel’s STOCKHISTORY function into SQL Server for downstream analysis. The earlier posts—“ How to Populate a Trading Database with Refinitiv, Excel, and SQL Server ” and “ How to Populate a Trading Database with Refinitiv, Excel, and SQL Server—Update 1 ”—introduced the workflow and addressed several formatting issues that arise when importing STOCKHISTORY output into SQL Server. Excel’s STOCKHISTORY function retrieves historical prices from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), formerly Refini...