Best Practices for uploading files to database

Question

I am looking for any best practices or ideas on how you would create an interface with a DB from a .NET web application to upload data from Excel files Should I use a mechan

Answer 1

do you want to put the excel files in the DB as a blob? or do you want to parse the files and put the records in the files into the db?

I'm assuming it is the latter.

As a user I'd like to have the option to know what the errors are so I can fix them and try again. I think how I try again depends on how much data I'm uploading.

I'd try to do a hybrid solution .. if there are only a few errors show a screen to correct those errors so the user can move on quickly. If there are a ton of errors you should just can it and have the user try all over again.

As far as the DB. Either have a separate table that uploads go into until they are checked and get with your "real" data, or have a UploadUniqueId column so you can roll-back any upload without much fuss.

delete tableName where UploadUniqueId = 'GUID'