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White Paper: Delivering Location Intelligence with Spatial Data

The growing ability of businesses and consumers to quickly absorb large volumes of data, together with the increased availability of digital maps and spatially enabled applications, has created an unprecedented opportunity to incorporate geographic factors into decision-making processes and analyses. The new spatial support in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 can help you to make better decisions through visual analysis of location data that can be stored and manipulated in a SQL Server database.

Included in This Document

  • Introduction

  • Comprehensive Spatial Support

    • Spatial Models

    • SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data Types

    • Spatial Data Type Methods

  • High-Performance Spatial Data Capabilities

  • Location-Aware Application Extensibility

    • Importing Spatial Data

    • Using Spatial Data

  • Conclusion