One advantage of CLR assemblies is the ability to consume web services from within the database. This wouldn’t be easy with T-SQL, and would also require a lot of work in an unmanaged extended stored procedure. With .NET, it’s almost as simple as accessing a local DLL. There are just a couple of extra command-line utilities we need to run to be able to access web services from within a SQL assembly:
2006-03-14
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This paper describes the new CLR integration features of SQL Server 2005 and how database application developers and architects can take advantage of them to write user-defined procedures, functions, and triggers, as well as define new types and aggregates
2005-11-30
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One other use of the new CLR integration in SQL Server 2005 is the ability to create user defined data types using managed code. Author Dinesh Priyankara brings us a first look at this capability with some code you can use.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2005-08-02)
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