This post shows how one can use MS Query to load an Excel table from SQL Server, with user-specified filter criteria (parameters) read from cells in the spreadsheet:
Table in Excel from SQL Server stored procedure with parameter field in workbook
I really liked the end result of that approach (part of the reason being that it was totally VBA free), but unfortunately, it seems that method has a 256 character limit on criteria.
I'm wondering if it is somehow possible to do something similar, but not using MS Query, and preferably not using VBA?