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Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:12 PM
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Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:16 PM
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I was at that very page in SQL 10 Books Online:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677290(SQL.100).aspx

And I quote:
"The hierarchyid data type is a variable length, system data type."
and
"The hierarchyid type is available to CLR clients as the SqlHierarchyId data type."

Does the fact that the hierarchy type has methods mean it is a CLR type? That would be the only clue I could see in that article that it is a CLR type. The article never explicitly says that.

I always have trouble reading between the lines. I always need things said explicitly.

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Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:54 PM
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Ditto to what Dr Diana Dee said - I was at the same article. It feels like there is something missing here in terms of clarifying information...

Here there be dragons...,

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Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:59 AM
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In addition to providing a good summmary of the new features of sql server 2008, the following link provides a much better explanation:

http://www.windowsdevpro.com/Pages/Content/1717/1717.aspx

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Kelsey Thornton
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:01 AM


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I was reading the same article, and inferred from the fact that it "is available to CLR clients as the SqlHierarchyId data type" that the CLR data type was in fact SqlHierarchyId.

The representation used in the article suggest that is is some kind of string (as it mentions slashes etc.). The fact that you convert it to nvarchar by using the ToString method made me think it must, therefore, be a varchar type...

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Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:41 AM


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I was reading the same article, and inferred from the fact that it "is available to CLR clients as the SqlHierarchyId data type" that the CLR data type was in fact SqlHierarchyId.

The representation used in the article suggest that is is some kind of string (as it mentions slashes etc.). The fact that you convert it to nvarchar by using the ToString method made me think it must, therefore, be a varchar type...


Agree...nvarchar or varchar also due to the size of the sqlhierarchyid making it too big to be an int. The clr type is SQLhierarchyid.
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Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:17 AM


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There isn't a great reference out there, and apologies for not getting a better one. The HierarchyID, from what I've seen from various sources, is a binary representation of a hierarchy, and it's implemented as a CLR type. The ToString() method will return a string representation with slashes, but the type itself is essentially a UDT, that's built into the system.






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Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:24 AM
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I don't think you should take the blame for this one. I think Books Online should be more explicit.

This was a great learning experience! I will now know that anything with methods must be a CLR type.

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