sqlclr

Working in Visual Studio, I'm trying to pass an entire row to a CLR stored procedure using FOR XML RAW and a parameter of type SqlXml in C# code (with the intent of processing the row using XmlReader). The row contains nvarchar fields. Everything works correctly when the nvarchar fields contain English/numeric/simple punctuation text, but when any of them contain Hebrew or Russian characters, these characters are turned into question marks. (The same for Russian-only text so not an RTL issue) From prints in SQL code I've found that the xml created by XML RAW preserves the non-English

I need to submit some data to a web service from our SQL Server then capture the results into a SQL Server table. Up to this point I have been looking at creating a SQL CLR (C#) stored procedure to accept a/some parameter(s) and then call the web service and capture the results into a SQL Server table; But I am open to any avenues that might work. My questions are these: Am I barking up the right tree so-to-speak, or is there a better way? Assuming a SQL CLR stored procedure is the best way; I am relatively new to C# in this capacity and was hoping someone could help point me in the right

My problem is as follows: I need a clr udf (in C#) to query with a given ad-usr the ad-group membership using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Data.SqlTypes; using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server; using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement; public partial class UserDefinedFunctions { [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction] public static SqlInt32 check_user_is_part_of_ad_grp(SqlString ad_usr, SqlString ad_grp) { bool bMemberOf = false; // set up domain context PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain); // find the group in question