September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
23h 31m
English
book
Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Programming
by Dejan Sarka Itzik Ben-Gan Greg Low, Roger Wolter, Ed Katibah, and Isaac Kunen
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Chapter 11. CLR User-Defined Types
Dejan Sarka
Since the advent of .NET integration in SQL Server 2005, you can create CLR-based User-Defined Types (UDTs) using a .NET language of your choice. Personally, I did not see many common language runtime (CLR) UDTs in production. I guess this is because DBAs are still somehow afraid of using CLR code in a relational database management system. My intention in this chapter is to show that CLR types can be useful. However, I am not dealing with practical issues only.
The most important new feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 dealing with CLR UDTs is their size. In SQL Server 2005, CLR UDTs were limited to 8,000 bytes. In SQL Server 2008, you can create large objects (LOBs), up to 2 GB, using CLR UDTs. In ...
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