Advantage of SQL SERVER CLR

Question

What advantages does SQLServer CLR offer over T-SQL? Is using .NET syntax easier than T-SQL? I see that you can define user types, but I\'m not quite clear on why that\'s be

Answer 1

I'll give one good example: CLR has a built in RegEx object, which is sorely lacking in SQL Server. Now it's trivial to write functions to do regex-based validation constraints/repairs.