[Bungleau]

I'll agree with Thoran... rethink your design. A nine-dimension array violates quite a few basic concepts of database design. In fact, from a true database perspective, you'd have something like...

... a character record with a key and description
... a stats table keyed off the character and stat type and containing the stat value

You'd look up the character, then the stats. If you wanted, the stats record would just have columns for each stat so you could retrieve it once.