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Mar 19, 2007

From the SQL Server documentation :

 "The input parameters and the type returned from a SVF can be any of the scalar
data types supported by SQL Server, except rowversion, text,
ntext, image, timestamp, table, or cursor"

This is a problem for me.  Here's what I'm trying to do :

I have an NTEXT field in one of my tables.  I want to run regular expressions on this field, and return the results from a stored procedure.  Since SQL Server doesn't provide facilities to perform regular expressions, I need to use an SQLCLR function.  I would have no problem doing this if my field was nvarchar.  However, this field needs to be variable in length - I cannot set an upper bound.  This is why I'm using NTEXT and not nvarchar in the first place.
Is there a solution to this problem?  I can't imagine that I'm the only person who wants to pass strings of arbitrary size to an SQLCLR function.
 

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