The present invention includes an apparatus, method and system for loading data into a database. The invention includes a spreadsheet dataset, having data in the form of one or more records, a control file containing a set of rules, each rule having a condition and a spreadsheet loader. The spreadsheet dataset and the control file are inputs to the spreadsheet loader. Each rule in the control file is evaluated for each record to determine if the condition is true for the record, and the records are parsed if the condition is true. The spreadsheet loader sends the parsed data to the database. The invention includes a user interface to facilitate creation of the control file.