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Spatial Data in the SQL Server
Spatial Data in the SQL Server
Spatial data is used to represent information about the location and shape of geometric objects. These objects can be the center point locations or more complex structures: roads, rivers, cities or countries. Beginning with 2008, the variety of SQL Server products from Microsoft offers support for geospatial data. This allows storing of spatial data types within tables as points, lines, and polygons. It also offers a large variety of functions for managing the data, as well as spatial indexes to run queries more efficiently.
