Storing C# data structure into a SQL database

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.IO;

namespace SerializeThingy
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List<string> myList = new List<string>();
            myList.Add("One");
            myList.Add("Two");
            myList.Add("Three");
            NetDataContractSerializer serializer = new NetDataContractSerializer();
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
            serializer.Serialize(stream, myList);
            stream.Position = 0;
            Console.WriteLine(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(stream.ToArray()));
            List<string> myList2 = (List<string>)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
            Console.WriteLine(myList2[0]);
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

[Serializable]
public struct Vector3
{
    public double x, y, z;
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Vector3 vector = new Vector3();
        vector.x = 1;
        vector.y = 2;
        vector.z = 3;

        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
        BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        binaryFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, vector);
        string str = System.Convert.ToBase64String(memoryStream.ToArray());

        //Store str into the database
    }
}

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.IO;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

public byte[] SerializeList<T>(List<T> list)
{

    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

    BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

    bf.Serialize(ms, list);

    ms.Position = 0;

    byte[] serializedList = new byte[ms.Length];

    ms.Read(serializedList, 0, (int)ms.Length);

    ms.Close();

    return serializedList;

}

public List<T> DeserializeList<T>(byte[] data)
{
    try
    {
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

        ms.Write(data, 0, data.Length);

        ms.Position = 0;

        BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

        List<T> list = bf.Deserialize(ms) as List<T>;

        return list;
    }
    catch (SerializationException ex)
    {
        // Handle deserialization problems here.
        Debug.WriteLine(ex.ToString());

        return null;
    }

}

List<string> stringList = new List<string>() { "January", "February", "March" };

byte[] data = SerializeList<string>(stringList);

SqlParameter param = new SqlParameter("columnName", SqlDbType.Binary, data.Length);
param.Value = data;

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