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| 1 | +# Implementing Transitive Closure Clustering in SQL Server using CLR UDF |
| 2 | +SQL Database don't have built-in support for transitive closure clustering, so the only workaround is to implement this algorithm in .Net framework and expose it as T-SQL function. |
| 3 | +This code sample demonstrates how to create CLR User-Defined aggregate that implements clustering. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +### Contents |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +[About this sample](#about-this-sample)<br/> |
| 8 | +[Build the CLR/RegEx functions](#build-functions)<br/> |
| 9 | +[Add RegEx functions to your SQL database](#add-functions)<br/> |
| 10 | +[Test the functions](#test)<br/> |
| 11 | +[Disclaimers](#disclaimers)<br/> |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +<a name=about-this-sample></a> |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## About this sample |
| 16 | +1. **Applies to:** SQL Server 2016+ Enterprise / Developer / Evaluation Edition |
| 17 | +2. **Key features:** |
| 18 | + - CLR, JSON |
| 19 | +3. **Programming Language:** .NET C# |
| 20 | +4. **Author:** Davide Mauri, Jovan Popovic [jovanpop-msft] |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +<a name=build-functions></a> |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +## Build the CLR/RegEx functions |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +1. Download the source code and open the solution using Visual Studio. |
| 27 | +2. Change the password in .pfk file and rebuild the solution in **Release** mode. |
| 28 | +3. Open and save TransitiveClosure.tt to generate output T-SQL file that will contain script that inserts .dll file with the Transitive closure clustering aggregate. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +<a name=add-functions></a> |
| 31 | +## Add Clustering aggregate to your SQL database |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +File TransitiveClosure.sql contains the code that will import aggregate into SQL Database. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +If you have not added CLR assemblies in your database, you should use the following script to enable CLR: |
| 36 | +``` |
| 37 | +sp_configure @configname=clr_enabled, @configvalue=1 |
| 38 | +GO |
| 39 | +RECONFIGURE |
| 40 | +GO |
| 41 | +``` |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +Once you enable CLR, you can use the T-SQL script to add the clustering aggregate. The script depends on the location where you have built the project, and might look like: |
| 44 | +``` |
| 45 | +CREATE ASSEMBLY TransitiveClosure FROM 'D:\GitHub\sql-server-samples\samples\features\sql-clr\TransitiveClosure\bin\Release\TransitiveClosureAggregatorLibrary.dll' WITH PERMISSION_SET = SAFE; |
| 46 | +GO |
| 47 | +
|
| 48 | +CREATE SCHEMA TC; |
| 49 | +GO |
| 50 | +
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| 51 | +CREATE AGGREGATE TC.CLUSTERING(@id1 INT, @id2 INT) |
| 52 | +RETURNS NVARCHAR(MAX) |
| 53 | +EXTERNAL NAME TransitiveClosure.[TransitiveClosure.Aggregate]; |
| 54 | +``` |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +This code will import assembly in SQL Database and add three functions that provide clustering functionalities. |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +<a name=test></a> |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +## Test the function |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +Once you create the assembly and expose the functions, you can use it to cluster some relational data in T-SQL code: |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +``` |
| 65 | +declare @edges table(n1 int, n2 int); |
| 66 | +
|
| 67 | +insert into @edges |
| 68 | +values (1,2),(2,3),(3,4),(4,5),(2,21),(2,22), |
| 69 | + (7,8),(8,9),(9,10); |
| 70 | +
|
| 71 | +select TC.CLUSTERING(n1,n2) |
| 72 | +from @edges; |
| 73 | +``` |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +<a name=disclaimers></a> |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +## Disclaimers |
| 78 | +The code included in this sample is not intended to be a set of best practices on how to build scalable enterprise grade applications. This is beyond the scope of this sample. |
| 79 | + |
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