SQL Server 2005 is bringing many enhancements our way, but from an application developer's perspective, .NET integration is the most anticipated new feature. SQL Server 2005 can execute user-defined functions (UDFs), stored procedures, user-defined aggregates (UDAs), user-defined types (UDTs), and triggers written in common language runtime (CLR) languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C#. The scope of this remarkable shift in database programming could fill a book, and much of the functionality...