<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data Types</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/archive/2007/11/26/sql-server-2008-spatial-data-types.aspx</link><description>Continuing my series of notes following the TechNet event last Thursday evening, &amp;#160; I wanted to explain that in SQL Server 2008 there are two new data types for storing spatial information; geometry and geography.&amp;#160; Unfortunately on Thursday I</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>SQL Server 2008 Spatial data - geography &amp; geometry, all in one</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/archive/2007/11/26/sql-server-2008-spatial-data-types.aspx#3015550</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:47:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3015550</guid><dc:creator>SQL Server 2008 - CTP (SSQA.net)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Geography &amp;amp;amp; Geometry has much significance in day to day life, within that as a data now you can&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>SQL Server 2008 Spatial data - geography &amp; geometry, all in one</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/archive/2007/11/26/sql-server-2008-spatial-data-types.aspx#3015792</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:24:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3015792</guid><dc:creator>SQL Server 2008 - CTP (SSQA.net)</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Geography &amp;amp;amp; Geometry has much significance in day to day life, within that as a data now you can&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data Types</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/andrew/archive/2007/11/26/sql-server-2008-spatial-data-types.aspx#3094079</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:28:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3094079</guid><dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Having implemented the underlying computational engine I can provide some inside information on the hemisphere restriction (&amp;quot;I am guessing that this is also something to do with the standards&amp;quot;). &amp;nbsp;The restriction is there because the problem is surprisingly complex, and at release time we did not have a solution that was good enough to meet our high quality bar. I hope to have one by the next release, and then the restriction will be removed.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>