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Katmai Spatial - Whats a dimension?

When you read the specs for the spatial stuff (BOL has some incorrect links) some of the methods talk about min and maximum geometry dimensions. I must have been doing too much analysis services stuff and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what a dimension was in this context. On reading the...

Posted to SimonS Blog on SQL Server Stuff (Weblog) by simonsabin on 12-12-2007
Katmai Spatial - What's a geometry

Following on my previous post on discovering the spatial types I mention that one of the aspects to understand is the different types of geometries. Point Fairly this is obvious its a single spot that has an X and a Y co-ordinate. Multi Point A group of points that are not connected. (if they were connected...

Posted to SimonS Blog on SQL Server Stuff (Weblog) by simonsabin on 12-09-2007
Katmai Spatial - First thoughts

I've been doing some work with the Spatial types in Katmai and these are my first thoughts. The first thing is that the data type is the same used by SQL as used in your .Net code. So what does that mean, · You use the same methods, which is great from a familiarity perspective · When calling the...

Posted to SimonS Blog on SQL Server Stuff (Weblog) by simonsabin on 12-09-2007

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