Excel spreadsheets are fantastic bits of kit, but databases are not. Rather than making the full jump to replacing Excel with a database system, there is a halfway house you can consider.

Convert Excel (.xlsx) files to pipe-delimited TXT files, automatically mapping columns and order to an existing SQL Server table structure. Ideal for legacy system integration, automated data imports, ...

How to Convert Excel Documents to Microsoft Access. You use Office Excel 2010, the spreadsheet software from Microsoft, to create complex documents that can contain tables.