From what I see above in your new post, my suggestion would be to develop a standard excel file formatted how you want already to fit on the pages containing tables, and do a save to PDF where each pages table set of data fits on your page and then just link the file to the pdf and it will update for you when you open it & refresh links. Then you are using excel to do the SQL connect and formatting and PDF export to be easily imported/overlaid onto your design template (I have done this too for some catalogs I designed before).