Session on SQL Server Geospatial Features to be presented

On April 24th, I'll be presenting the topic: When GEO meets SQL: Hotwiring Data to Locations at SQLSaturday in the Atlanta regional Microsoft office.


This is a beginner's level session on geospatial for the DBA and TSQL developer. We will focus on the adaptation of the spatial capabilities to a data warehouse and how to acquire resources with little or no money ( a key requirement in the health care field). The description is below:


Spatial fields, operators, and functions were introduced in SQL 2008. I will detail how these can be integrated with location-based information in existing data warehouses and marts - and on the cheap. We will briefly discuss the basics (geometry versus geography, geocoding), then move on to the common problems with this task and the remedies.

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Stay tuned. I'll let you know how it went.