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NoSQL, NoGIS… What’s with all the Negativity?
Databases are dull. So is geography. As a result, professionals in these fields have a habit of desperately trying to make themselves sound more interesting by inventing exciting memes – something that...
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SQL Spatial Puzzle #1: The Disappearing Square
This is the first in what will (hopefully) be a series of posts demonstrating a few light-hearted uses of SQL Server 2008 spatial functions to solve some common mathematical/logical puzzles. To...
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Drawing Fractals with SQL Server Spatial
I can’t think of any practical purpose for this code, but here’s a recursive SQLCLR procedure to draw a Sierpinski triangle fractal (or, at least, an approximation of one to a given level of detail) in...
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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...
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“Point-of-Maximal Distance” queries (AKA Variations on a Theme of...
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...
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NoSQL, NoGIS… What’s with all the Negativity?
Databases are dull. So is geography. As a result, professionals in these fields have a habit of desperately trying to make themselves sound more interesting by inventing exciting memes – something that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQL Spatial Puzzle #1: The Disappearing Square
This is the first in what will (hopefully) be a series of posts demonstrating a few light-hearted uses of SQL Server 2008 spatial functions to solve some common mathematical/logical puzzles. To...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drawing Fractals with SQL Server Spatial
I can’t think of any practical purpose for this code, but here’s a recursive SQLCLR procedure to draw a Sierpinski triangle fractal (or, at least, an approximation of one to a given level of detail) in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Point-of-Maximal Distance” queries (AKA Variations on a Theme of...
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...
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