What is the best way to maniupulate richtext / *.rtf data in SQL server 2005 / 2008 I have looked at ocx solutions. Maybe creating some CLR stored procs??
The problem is that I have several notes written in richtext that need to be combined for ease of reporting. Like SELECT @Notes = @Notes + RTFColumn FROM Notestable WHERE …
CLR would be the equivalent of writing a program and might not work as efficiently.
The database isn’t really designed to do what you are asking of it and, a CLR sproc that handled it would be blocking, on many levels. So you would be better off writing a program that manually processed through the rows to do what you want it to do.