Question

Hi all i have written a code to read the excel data from an excel, but i don’t know which was the best way to store the data my data in excel is as follows

               2000-01       2001-02     2002-03    2003-04   2004-05

Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%
Some text        65%           52%          51.3%      *        6.1%

The data seems to be as this in my excel file i know how to retrieve the data but i was looking for the best method to store the data can any one help me

AT present i am storing data in to List<string> as follows

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range range = worksheet.get_Range("A11", "G21");
System.Array myvalues = (System.Array)range.Cells.Value2;
List<string> newList = AnyListToStrList(myvalues);

But i am not sure that it was the right method so i am looking for the better one..

Answer 1

I would create 2 tables:

main (
id int,
description varchar(255)
)

period
(
main_id int (fk main(id))
period int,
period_length int, --in months or years, whatever is more appropriate
period_value float
)