Chapter 20: .NET Programming with SQL Server 2005

Overview

.NET 2.0 is a simultaneous release with the new version of SQL Server. SQL Server 2005 is a new host of the .NET runtime, and therefore it allows running .NET assemblies in the SQL Server process. It enables you to create stored procedures, functions, and data types with a .NET programming language such as C# and Visual Basic.

This chapter looks at the following:

• Hosting the .NET runtime with SQL Server

• Classes from the namespace System.Data.SqlServer

• Creating user-defined types

• Creating user-defined aggregates

• Stored procedures

• User-defined functions

• Triggers

• XML data types

  Note

  SQL Server 2005 also has many new features that are not directly associated with the CLR, such as many T-SQL improvements, but they are not covered in this book. To get more information about these features you can read Wrox's SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Wiley Publishing, Inc., ISBN 0-7645-8923-7).