database contains normal information of persons profile like name, address, email, mobile, web, & last professional...i.e. my catagory & i want to search / filtered the data using dropdown list of profession (catagory).

i m able to create the table in UDT & i can able to insert d data but i hv two problems

1. how to import 17000 excel data to sql server 2000 ..i tried copy manually but the problem is data stored in database vertically not column vise

2. how to insert dropdown list menu (catagory) to filter data to show result

i tried forum & cum to know that it is possible using Advancedtable.xsl...but i cant figured out how cuz i m not from programming background.