Interop doesn't have to be taxing. Interoperability between managed and unmanaged code happens under the hood in .NET. When you are doing Interop in your .NET applications, there are a few things to beware of, and Michael McLaughlin gives a brief introduction of how interop is used in .NET before explaining the five points to watch out for.… Read more
Only the brave, and foolhardy, write production CLR routines if you can get the functionality already-written and tested. Whether you're a DBA or developer, there are plenty of times when a CLR routine will save a lot of time, and occasionally provide new functionality.… Read more
Are Common Language Runtime routines in SQL Server faster or slower than the equivalent TSQL code? How would you go about testing the relative performance objectively? Solomon Rutzky creates a test framework to try to answer the question and comes up with some surprising results that you can check for yourselves, and offers some good advice.… Read more
With Clojure soon to be ported to the .NET framework, as ClojureCLR, we felt that the time had come to see what the fuss was all about amongst the Java Geeks. We sent Richard Morris to find out from the creator of Clojure, Rich Hickey.… Read more
When they use SQL Server, one the commoner questions that Ms Access programmers ask is 'Where's the TRANSFORM/PIVOT command? So how do you swap colums and rows in an aggregate table? Do you really need to use a CLR routine for this?… Read more
Phil Factor presents a simple CLR Assembly to allow SQL Server users to access all the powerful RegEx library methods in .NET. In the spirit of 'get something up and running', he takes a hands-on approach and demonstrates that you needn't be a C# hotshot or Visual Studio expert to develop a CLR assembly for SQL Server… Read more
Robyn and Phil tackle the topic of how to make .NET applications perform well. As usual, they try to take a terse, practical approach to the mysteries of JIT, CLR and GC. After giving many performance tips, they come to the conclusion that rules and tips are less useful than rolling up your sleeves and measuring or profiling everything possible, to see what's really happening with your application.… Read more
In this short article, Greg Larsen performance benchmarks alternative CLR-based and T-SQL stored procedure solutions for retrieving operating system file information. He also assesses other factors to be considered when choosing the correct implementation for your system, such as ease of development and maintenance.… Read more
