I have a library for my application's use in ASP.net (C#) for 2 versions. The library can handle the rather complex conversion already and I would rather use that to...

I think the security he was talking about is purely down to xp_cmdshell. Running arbitrary commands with administrative privileges will always be dangerous. Encapsulating the exact command you want in...

You can do all logical operations in just NOT and OR (maybe NOT and AND, I don't remember) though I'm not sure about bitwise.

You can do things like shifting with...

If you think that it is only easier in CLR because of the .NET API, write the CRC32 algorithm in T-SQL and in C# 2.0+ then compare size and calculation...

Yes, this is the kind of hash I was talking about. A lot of the time they are not too complicated but rely on arrays of polynomials, operators such as...

The "anti CLR" thing is usually just that many people abuse CLR and use it when they shouldn't. For manipulating data, writing a normal stored procedure in T-SQL is better.

You...

Isn't this only used to get the DBMS to execute the procedure and return the result back to the application?

I was hoping to do something more like just call the...

This probably isn't "as a DBA" but CLR is also useful for intensive computations such as calculating a hash of a file, if you don't want to put it in...

I have the DLL in this directory and have tried with and without the full path (Microsoft recommends with) but both produce the same problem.

Every reference to 193 (error not...

I'm having the same problem but I don't have the source of the DLL as it is a closed source application that uses it.

Is there any way that 32bit dlls...