Just found out about this one today. This SQLCLR function works right now in CTP4 of SQL Server 2008. public static Nullable<int> AddTwo(Nullable<int> x, Nullable<int> y) { return x+y; } create function dbo.addtwo (@x int, @y int) returns int as external name asmname.[Mynamespace.Class1].AddTwo; select dbo.addtwo(2, null); -> null Great! Turns out, I suggested this back in […]
Bob Beauchemin
SQL Server Blog
.NET Nullable Types as SQLCLR parameters in SQL Server 2008
Posted on: August 28, 2007 9:33 am
At TechEd Hong Kong: precon and day 1
Posted on: August 28, 2007 9:22 am
11:00AM: I’m sitting in the lounge room at TechEd Hong Kong, getting ready to do my first talk on SQL Server. It’s an interesting setup that we have this year, the wireless hub is located next to an area of booths. Lots of interaction (I think) between vendors, attendees, and speakers. The preconference talk on […]
XEvent: Some final followup questions (slight return…)
Posted on: August 20, 2007 11:54 pm
Last blog entry on SQL Server Extended Events for a while. But…a couple of questions came up since I wrote my first blog entry on SQL Server Extended Events. What are the major advantages to SQL Server Extended Events? Is this really using the Crimson event system? There's a couple of reasons that come […]
Finishing XEvent package items, syntax, and semantics (moon turn the tides…)
Posted on: August 20, 2007 10:07 pm
This won't be as long of an entry because I'm trying to finish describing the items that you can use in an XEvent session, that is, the items that exist in a package. Events Targets Actions Predicates Maps Types Let's do types and maps. A type is simply […]
More about XEvent: actions and targets (still raining, still dreaming)
Posted on: August 20, 2007 9:04 pm
It's another rainy day in Portland in summer, so I thought I'd stay inside and write more about SQL Server 2008 Extended Events. I wanted to finish things off by talking about actions and predicates. Need to make a detour at targets, too. I noticed the BOL examples (my point is to try not to repeat things […]
More about SQL Server 2008 extended events: packages, events, and event sessions
Posted on: August 19, 2007 8:16 pm
It's summertime in Oregon and its been nice and warm out (75-85F) lately. But today its raining (or specifically, the skies are quite ominous right now), so it's time to write more about my latest favorite subject: SQL Server 2008 Extended Events. The SQL Server 2008 extended events introduce quite a bit of new terminology, but […]
Making the XEvent ETW target run
Posted on: August 16, 2007 7:20 pm
When starting out with XEvent support, I thought it would be good to start with the ETW target, although you can capture and catagorize events in buckets with the async bucketizer target, and pair related events (like obtain lock/release lock) with the pair matching target. Both VERY cool. But I just wanted a raw, vanilla trace, […]
XEvent in SQL Server 2008
Posted on: August 16, 2007 6:49 pm
When I'm doing problem solving, its always good to have too much information rather than too little. With this in mind, I was quite interested in looking at SQL Server Extended Events (XEvent support) in SQL Server 2008. You could always get diagnostic information in SQL Server through DBCC and SQL Trace/SQL Profiler. In SQL […]
New SQL Server 2008 Date/Time-related types and ADO.NET
Posted on: August 2, 2007 10:51 pm
I've been looking at the mapping of the new Katmai date/time data types to .NET types, both from the point of view of SQL Server ADO.NET clients and of SQLCLR procedures/functions/triggers. There are a couple of things that "interesting", if I'm not misunderstanding something obvious. There are no new System.Data.SqlTypes to correspond to the new […]
Katmai: Using Table-Valued Parameters with ADO.NET
Posted on: August 2, 2007 9:49 pm
I've been trying out table-valued parameters along with ADO.NET support in Orcas and came across an interesting dilemma. It centers around INSERTs using TVP against a table with an identity column. ADO.NET can use DataTable, DbDataReader or IList<SqlDataRecord> to represent a TVP parameter. Let's say that I want a TVP and a procedure for insert that […]
Two friends of mine (and SQL geeks) tie the knot
Posted on: August 1, 2007 3:35 am
Now that Kim and Paul have each posted about it and even published some pictures, I guess its time for me to send out a heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS to them both on the occasion of their recent wedding last weekend. All the best in your upcoming life together! In a seperate/related announcement, Paul announced that he’ll be joining […]
SQL Server 2008 July CTP – what’s new (and what’s gone)
Posted on: August 1, 2007 3:18 am
I saw Dan Jones’ posting that the SQL Server 2008 July CTP (aka CTP4) was available on the Connect website. This one has some good things in it (like the new date/time datatypes as well as the hierarchyid data type) that should keep me busy for a while. There’s much more new stuff than that, but […]
