T-SQL is great for database code, but writing procedural code in T-SQL has always been difficult. Invariably, your project includes a stored procedure or two, requiring some text parsing or complex ...

SQL Server 2005&'s new integrated Visual Studio features allow solution providers, who write lines of business applications, to be more productive by giving them faster access to data and more ...

CLR: Best for code that’s computation- or logic-intensive. A better option than “extended stored procedures,” which Microsoft offered in earlier SQL Server releases for creating server-side code with ...

A CLR UDT has a limit of 8000 bytes - I doubt thats big enough to pack a file into. I guess you could use custom serialization and store the compressed file in a different table using the ...

<Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction()> Public Shared Function fnIsNumeric(field As SqlString, sqltype As String) As SqlBoolean Dim result As New SqlBoolean(0) 'default to False Dim errorMessage As ...

Knowing how thread injection works in .Net is key to allowing your ASP.Net application to make the best use of system resources In the .Net Framework, the CLR is responsible for meting out resources ...

This is my first time trying to use SQL CLR, so if I'm missing something obvious, I'm sorry.<BR><BR>So I have a SQL CLR function that takes a long list of comma-separated guids in a string and returns ...