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I am creating a CLR UDF using external name and second level nested class names seem not to be permitted. Is this the case? When using the following syntax and including a first level class name and associated method, I am able to bind a UDF to the method, but not if I included additional subclass levels.

    CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_test](@variable [nvarchar](MAX))
    RETURNS [nvarchar](MAX) WITH EXECUTE AS CALLER
    AS 
    EXTERNAL NAME [assembly].[ns.first.second].[method]
    GO

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As far as I can tell (I did some testing of my own), this is not supported.

The documentation hints at this:

If the class has a namespace-qualified name that uses a period (.) to separate namespace parts, ...

Since there's no mention of a class-qualified name, I'm assuming SQL Server will traverse the hierarchy only by namespaces, with the last name being the class itself. There wasn't any way I could find to delimit the namespace and class name portions of the fully-qualified class name either.

What I wonder, though, is why your code is structured this way? The method you need to specify must be static, so nesting it within an extra class scope seems like you're (ab)using a class in place of a namespace.

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  • I did not know nested namespaces was possible. Now I do.
    – Alex Erwin
    Feb 25, 2013 at 23:39

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