If you don't believe me then come along on Friday before SQLbits and learn about the great things you can do with .net in SQL.

http://www.sqlknowhow.com/events/sqlbits20080912.aspx

During the one day seminar we will cover

1. How CLR is hosted in SQL Server
2. Creating CLR objects using a .Net language
3. Comparing the performance with TSQL and other options
4. Providing guidance on when to use CLR objects and when not to
5. Getting the best performance from your CLR objects

I hope you will come away not afraid of using .net in SQL, it means you can write simpler code, that is performs better and in some cases achieves things not possible in TSQL.

This is cross posted from my SQLBlogcasts blog which can be found here, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/Using .Net in SQL is faster than TSQL in many situations