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Programming Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008
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Programming Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008

by Leonard Lobel, Andrew Brust, and Stephen Forte
October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
1024 pages
31h 30m
English
Microsoft Press
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Best Practices for SQL CLR Usage

Before we close this chapter, we’d like to summarize certain best practices for the appropriate use of SQL CLR programming.

The CLR integration in SQL Server 2008 is a powerful technology. In some cases, it allows you to do things you can’t do practically in T-SQL (such as apply complex computational logic in stored procedures or triggers), and in other cases, it allows you to do things you can’t do at all in T-SQL (such as create your own aggregate functions).

The fact remains, however, that set-based data selection and modification are much better handled by the declarative constructs in T-SQL than in the procedural constructs of .NET and the ADO.NET object model. SQL CLR functionality should be reserved for specific ...

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