Thats fair enough, I wouldn't use COM objects very often normally anyway, usually just FSO for pumping out the odd file here and there. So anyway on a general day to day basis how often would you use CLR compared to T-SQL? I can see the definatly see certain circumstances when the CLR would prove very useful but probably only accounting for 5% of the day to day work for most DBAs. I'm not against using it I just haven't had the chance to use it and am wondering how useful it really is.