SQL Spatial – Creating spatial data from scratch

In this blog series we will dig into spatial data available in SQL Server. This second post will be creating spatial data manually. The three base objects will be reviewed and see different examples of queries. Let’s start by opening up SSMS and connecting to a SQL Server instance that is 2008 or higher. Spatial …

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SQL Spatial – Data Types

In this blog series we will dig into spatial data available in SQL Server. This first post will be on the data types in SQL Server that allow storing spatial data. Spatial data has many different names. Geographic information, geospatial data, GIS, map data, or location each one generally refers to the same thing. SQL …