Investigating the new Spatial Types in SQL Server 2008

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margery_spears

Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:11 PM

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Have you seen the Manage SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data tutorial on the SQL Server "How Do I?" Videos page? It's a nice companion to this article because you can see how to do it.

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rehman-615909

Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:36 PM

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Do we still have any hope for the rest of the articles in this series? Can some other expert jump in and complete puzzle?
I need to get information on this topic specially building / constructing 3D shapes and querying the data involving these shapes. Can someone refer to some sites/books that can speed up this process of learning for me?
Any and all help is well appreciated.
Thanks.

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Bennie Haelen

Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:19 PM

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Hello,

This is Bennie (the original author). I have been out for a while due to family issues, but I am back, look for the next post in a couple of days.

Bennie

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Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 2:08 AM

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Hi Rehman,

You can check out "Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008" (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Spatial-Server-Experts-Voice/dp/1430218290), which has chapters covering the following topics:
1. Defining Spatial Information
2. Implementing Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008
3. CLR Datatypes and the .NET Framework
4. Creating Spatial Data
5. Marking Out Features Using Virtual Earth
6. Importing Spatial Data
7. Geocoding
8. Syndicating Spatial Data
9. Interactive Web Mapping
10. The Spatial Results Tab
11. Examining Spatial Properties
12. Modifying Spatial Objects
13. Testing Spatial Relationships
14. Spatial Indexing

However, you won't find anything about working with 3D geometries, in this book or any other - although SQL Server allows you to define coordinates in 4 dimensions (x, y, z, m), all of the inbuilt methods only operate in two dimensions (the flat planar surface of the geometry datatype, or the ellipsoidal surface of the geography datatype). z and m can be stored, but are not used unless you want to write your own custom methods.

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