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 ...

The latest version of Microsoft's flagship database, SQL Server 2005, introduces an enormous number of enhancements to the product's security, scalability, performance, and programmability features.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how to update the SQLCLR assemblies used by SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) after you've updated the .NET framework. [!INCLUDEssDQSnoversion] (DQS) is a collection of SQL Common Language ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] There are four main functional extensions to ADO.NET that are specifically for in-process use. The following topics will cover these extensions in detail. This class provides ...