Tag Archives: SQL Server
Geocoding in SQL Server with the Bing Maps Locations API
Almost every SQL Server database contains “spatial” data. That information might not use the dedicated geography or geometry spatial datatypes but, more likely, could be a table of customer addresses, the name of a city of region for which a … Continue reading
Gridding Geometries (or, “Creating patchwork animals in SQL Server”)
This is one of those things that I can’t imagine anybody would ever really want to do but, seeing as I haven’t posted anything for a while, I thought I’d write about it just in case it’s of use to … Continue reading
“Point-of-Maximal Distance” queries (AKA Variations on a Theme of Nearest-Neighbours)
Nearest neighbour queries (or, for my international readers, nearest-neighbor queries), are a pretty common query pattern used in location-based applications and spatial analysis:- given a set of known locations of restaurants, customers, stations etc., “What/where is the nearest X to … Continue reading
SQL Server 2012 – What’s New for Spatial?
So Microsoft launched SQL Server 2012 today, and you can download the SQL 2012 Express edition right now from http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx No doubt there will be lots of people writing blog articles about the various new features – AlwaysOn, Column Store … Continue reading
Alastair Aitchison 