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The common language runtime (CLR) is the heart of the Microsoft .NET Framework and provides the execution environment for all .NET Framework code. Code that runs within the CLR is referred to as ...

The common language runtime (CLR) is the heart of .NET Framework and provides the execution environment for all .NET Framework code. Code that runs within the CLR is referred to as managed code. The ...

Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused by an unexpected result from the SQL Server ISNUMERIC() function. I was using SQL Server 2008 R2 but the issue has long been ...

A CLR UDT has a limit of 8000 bytes - I doubt thats big enough to pack a file into. I guess you could use custom serialization and store the compressed file in a different table using the ...

<Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction()> Public Shared Function fnIsNumeric(field As SqlString, sqltype As String) As SqlBoolean Dim result As New SqlBoolean(0) 'default to False Dim errorMessage As ...

SQL Server 2005&'s new integrated Visual Studio features allow solution providers, who write lines of business applications, to be more productive by giving them faster access to data and more ...