Porting from MySql to T-Sql. Any INET_ATON() equivalent?

Question

Need to move some code from MySql to TSql. I have a couple of calls to INET_ATON which converts a string which resembles an IPAddress into a number. Is there a T-SQL equival

Answer 1

An abuse of the parsname function:

create function INET_ATON (@addr varchar(15))
returns bigint
with schemabinding
as
begin
  return  
    cast(parsename(@addr, 4) as bigint) * 16777216 +
    cast(parsename(@addr, 3) as bigint) * 65536 +
    cast(parsename(@addr, 2) as bigint) * 256 +
    cast(parsename(@addr, 1) as bigint)
end

That "short form address" thing is not supported here though.