The following is a CLR that allows the user to create a CLR based EVAL function in SQL - this will evaluate math expressions and return the result as a decimal:
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Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10...3#10278603
Main Source:
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data.SqlTypes
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Server
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Partial Public Class UserDefinedFunctions
<Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction()> _
Public Shared Function EVAL(ByVal InputExpression As SqlString) As SqlDecimal
Return Evaluate(InputExpression)
End Function
Private Shared Function Evaluate(ByVal expression As SqlString) As SqlDecimal
Dim expressionStr As String = expression.ToString()
Dim loDataTable = New DataTable()
Dim loDataColumn = New DataColumn("Eval", GetType(Double), expressionStr)
loDataTable.Columns.Add(loDataColumn)
loDataTable.Rows.Add(0)
Return ParseDecimal(loDataTable.Rows(0)("Eval").ToString(), 0)
End Function
Public Shared Function ParseDecimal(ByVal InputStr As String, Optional ByVal ReturnIfFail As Decimal = 0) As Decimal
Dim ParseOutput As Decimal = 0
If Decimal.TryParse(InputStr, ParseOutput) = False Then
Return ReturnIfFail
Else
Return ParseOutput
End If
End Function
End Class
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