mickyT (6/16/2014)

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One to make you smile if you have 2012:-)

DECLARE @smiley varchar(20) = 'Dont Worry Be Happy';

WITH Params AS (

SELECT MAX(CASE WHEN ItemNumber = 1 THEN Val END) OFFSET,

MAX(CASE WHEN ItemNumber = 2 THEN Val END) BASE,

MAX(CASE WHEN ItemNumber = 3 THEN Val END) BASEMULTIPLIER,

MAX(CASE WHEN ItemNumber = 4 THEN Val END) BASEDIVISOR

FROM (

SELECT ItemNumber, Item, LEN(Item) Val

FROM [dbo].[DelimitedSplit8K](@smiley,' ')

) s

)

SELECT @smiley Quote, Geometry::Point(BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER, BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER,0).STBuffer(BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER).STDifference((

SELECT Geometry::UnionAggregate(g)

FROM (

SELECT Geometry::Point(BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER - OFFSET, BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER + OFFSET,0).STBuffer(BASE / BASEDIVISOR) g FROM Params

UNION ALL

SELECT Geometry::Point(BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER + OFFSET, BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER + OFFSET,0).STBuffer(BASE / BASEDIVISOR) g FROM Params

UNION ALL

SELECT Geometry::STGeomFromText(

CONCAT('CIRCULARSTRING(',

BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER - OFFSET, ' ', BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER - OFFSET, ', ',

BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER , ' ', (BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER - OFFSET) - ((BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER) / (BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER - OFFSET)), ', ',

BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER + OFFSET, ' ', BASE * BASEMULTIPLIER - OFFSET, ')'),0).STBuffer(BASE / BASEDIVISOR) g FROM Params

) a

)) Smiley

FROM Params;

--Now switch to Spatial Results Tab :)

Edit: Tweaked Slightly