Since SQL Server 7, stored procedures and user-defined functions (UDFs) aren't precompiled or stored in an intermediate parsed-tree format prior to use, as in earlier versions.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

SQL Server verifies that the assembly code is type-safe and validates the code when it's cataloged. This not only saves time—because the runtime usually does this during the JIT process (at first load ...