The common language runtime (CLR) is the heart of .NET Framework and provides the execution environment for all .NET Framework code. Code that runs within the CLR is referred to as managed code. The ...

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.

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 ...

[!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 ...

<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 ...