For most things that you can’t do straigh-off in T-SQL, you have the option to write a Common Language Runtime procedure. This gives you access to a huge array of APIs, so you can create really cool stuff, way beyond what T-SQL would normally allow you to do. Here, we’ll explore how to write a web request procedure in C#, so you can download a web document (for instance, a file on a REST service) directly into a table or a string variable using just a regular function call.

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