On 2006-02-14, Tony Rogerson <tonyrogerson_at_sqlserverfaq.com> wrote:
> CLR :: Common Language Runtime.
>
> In a nutshell it allows you to write code in any langauge that supports the
> Common Language Specificiation in .NET (there are a lot now and not just MS
> grown ones).
>
> Now its integrated into SQL Server we can write stuff that T-SQL doesn't do
> very well like string manipulation, complex mathematics, point data types,
> objects etc... in a .NET language and then run them in SQL Server using the
> CLR environment.
>
> It allows us to extend SQL Server infinitely using CLR - User Definied
> Functions, Types, Stored Procedures, Triggers etc... - its quite cool to be
> honest, no doubt other vendors will catch up in future versions.
>
Sounds like something Oracle already has. Although why you would
want to saddle any expensive enterprise RDBMS with numerical analysis is
really quite beyond me.
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Received on Thu Feb 16 2006 - 14:50:09 CST
