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Determining Whether Home Addresses Fall Within a Tornado Polygon Using Spatial Functions

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Geographic information systems (GIS) play a critical role in emergency response planning and risk assessment. One of the key challenges in this field is determining whether a specific location falls within an area of interest. This capability is especially valuable for property and casualty (P&C) insurers, who need to assess their insured property exposure when severe weather events such as tornadoes occur.

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Problem The usage of a collection of integers in some scenarios is considered to be optimal because of the overhead involved by the creation of another user table used just to store numbers, which is the most common solution. What are collections of integers? They are lists or arrays consisting of integers. The number of […]

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2020-02-13

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Getting The Database Name

I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.

sqlcmd -S localhost -E
At the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
GO
What is returned?

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