How to: Create and Run a SQL Server Stored Procedure by using Common Language Run-time Integration

Create SQL stored procedures by adding Stored Procedure items to SQL Server Common Language Run-time (SQL CLR) database projects. After you successfully deploy to a computer that is running SQL Server, stored procedures created in managed code are called and executed like any other stored procedures.


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To create a SQL Server stored procedure

  1. Open an existing SQL CLR database project, or create a new one. For more information, see How to: Create a Project for Database Objects that Use SQL Server Common Language Run-time Integration.

  2. On the Project menu, select Add New Item.

  3. Select Stored Procedure in the Add New Item Dialog Box.

  4. Type a Name for the new stored procedure.

  5. Add code to run when the stored procedure is executed. See the first example that follows this procedure.

  6. In Solution Explorer, open the TestScripts folder and double-click the Test.sql file.


    You can specify other scripts as your default debug script. For more information, see How to: Edit the Test.sql Script to Run Objects that use SQL Server Common Language Run-time Integration.

  7. Add code to the Test.sql file to execute the stored procedure. See the second example that follows this procedure.

  8. Press F5 to build, deploy, and debug the stored procedure. For information about how to deploy without debugging, see How to: Deploy SQL Server CLR Integration Database Project Items to a SQL Server.

    Important noteImportant

    SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 only support SQL Server projects that were built with the 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 version of the .NET Framework. If you try to deploy a SQL Server project to SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008, an error appears: Deploy error (SQL01268): .NET SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 6218, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 CREATE ASSEMBLY for assembly 'AssemblyName' failed because assembly 'AssemblyName' failed verification. Check if the referenced assemblies are up-to-date and trusted (for external_access or unsafe) to execute in the database (where AssemblyName is the name of the assembly that you are deploying). For more information, see How to: Create a Project for Database Objects that Use SQL Server Common Language Run-time Integration.

  9. View the results in the Output Window and select Show output from: Database Output.

The following code example creates a stored procedure that inserts a record into the Currency table of the Adventure Works sample database. After creating the stored procedure, deploy it to the SQL Server. For more information, see How to: Deploy SQL Server CLR Integration Database Project Items to a SQL Server.

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data.SqlTypes;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server;

public partial class StoredProcedures
    public static void InsertCurrency_CS(
        SqlString currencyCode, SqlString name)
        using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("context connection=true"))
            SqlCommand InsertCurrencyCommand = new SqlCommand();
            SqlParameter currencyCodeParam = new SqlParameter("@CurrencyCode", SqlDbType.NVarChar);
            SqlParameter nameParam = new SqlParameter("@Name", SqlDbType.NVarChar);

            currencyCodeParam.Value = currencyCode;
            nameParam.Value = name;


            InsertCurrencyCommand.CommandText =
                "INSERT Sales.Currency (CurrencyCode, Name, ModifiedDate)" +
                " VALUES(@CurrencyCode, @Name, GetDate())";

            InsertCurrencyCommand.Connection = conn;


Add code to execute and test your stored procedure to the Test.sql file in the TestScripts folder in your project. For example, if you deployed a stored procedure, run it by calling EXEC <StoredProcedureName> and passing in any expected parameters. If your stored procedure returns no values, insert additional code to verify that data was affected by the stored procedure.


If you created the sample by using Visual C#, substitute InsertCurrency_CS for the stored procedure name in the following sample.

EXEC InsertCurrency 'AAA', 'Currency Test'
SELECT * from Sales.Currency where CurrencyCode = 'AAA'

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