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Hi Folks, As part of the SQL Server 2012 launch, I've contributed a presentation on StreamInsight...
Date: 03/08/2012
Cute! Although I’m guessing that people who really are into maps have a slightly higher view of...
Date: 11/14/2011
Hi Folks, I just wrapped up my talk the 2011 PASS Summit. Here are a few quick thoughts:...
Date: 10/17/2011
Alastair Aitchison has started a series on doing spatiotemporal analysis using StreamInsight and the...
Date: 08/05/2011
Hi Folks, As I mentioned some a few posts ago, I recently made a move to the StreamInsight team....
Date: 07/25/2011
Hi Folks, As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently moved from my old home in the SQL Server...
Date: 04/20/2011
Hi Folks, Many years ago I kicked up this blog. It started with a trickle of general posts on SQL...
Date: 03/30/2011
Hi Folks, Over at his blog, Nicklas Avéns questions the behavior of Filter. He's right: Filter is a...
Date: 03/04/2010
Hi Folks, As part of a larger effort to document our protocols, SQL Server has just released...
Date: 08/10/2009
Hi Folks, The title of this post states the obvious: the area of a sphere is finite. We even...
Date: 07/09/2009
Hi Folks, Marko Tintor from our Serbia team just dropped some new functionality into the SQL Server...
Date: 06/02/2009
Hi Folks, We all know that the sphere isn’t the plane, and that an ellipsoid is different as well,...
Date: 06/01/2009
Hi Folks, This post contains no new information; it’s just a rollup of links to spatial indexing...
Date: 05/28/2009
Simon Sabin asked me to pass along information about a free spatial event that he and Johannes...
Date: 04/09/2009
Hi Folks, Jason Follas recently ran across a lingering issue when using our spatial library without...
Date: 02/23/2009
Hi Folks, It occurs to me that I haven’t posted anything about the hemisphere limitation for the SQL...
Date: 02/06/2009
Hi Folks, While I continue to procrastinate, here are some excellent spatial resources to peruse....
Date: 12/11/2008
Last time, I posted a question sent to me by Rob Mount. So what solutions exist other than the...
Date: 12/08/2008
Hi Folks, At PDC I gave a talk largely inspired by topics raised here and in the spatial...
Date: 12/05/2008
This has come up a few times now. Multiple questions deserve at least one answer, right?...
Date: 11/04/2008
Despite my relative youth, I can be a bit of a fuddy-duddy. Fighting my natural impulses, I’ve...
Date: 10/24/2008
Hi Folks, Spatial users often want to find the object nearest a given point. This operation, usually...
Date: 10/22/2008
Hi Folks, A post on the spatial forum last week caught my attention for entirely non-spatial...
Date: 10/16/2008
Hi Folks, Unfortunately, I need to correct an earlier post of mine. I will not be speaking at...
Date: 10/09/2008
Hi Folks, I'd like to let everyone know about a few conferences that I'll be at in the near...
Date: 09/17/2008
Let's talk about projections---or at least about one very special projection: the gnomonic...
Date: 09/02/2008
I've seen a problem commonly phrased something like: I have X million records in a spatial table,...
Date: 08/29/2008
Hi Folks, This post is motivated by some recent discussion I've seen in the various tubes. I...
Date: 08/15/2008
Hi Folks, Marko Tintor, one of our spatial developers, just uploaded a bunch of new functionality to...
Date: 08/14/2008
Hi Folks, Let's kick this off with what may be a surprising result. What should this code...
Date: 08/07/2008
Hi Folks, I've just published a new project on CodePlex: SQL Server Spatial Tools. The core...
Date: 08/01/2008
Hi Folks, When we talk about lines on the Earth, we don't really mean straight lines: we following...
Date: 07/28/2008
Hi Folks, I'm mostly recovered from a machine crash---hard drives are the bane of the computer...
Date: 07/17/2008
Hi Folks, As we continue to shut down SQL Server 2008, our first release candidate has been...
Date: 06/10/2008
Hi Folks, As a vague part of what has become an ongoing spatial road show, I find myself in...
Date: 06/09/2008
Hi Folks, One of the most common questions about the spatial support in SQL Server is how to...
Date: 06/02/2008
Hi Folks, We have one more upcoming pre-release before we're done with SQL Server 2008, and while...
Date: 05/30/2008
Hi Folks, I'll be at TechEd next week, so look me up if you're going to be in Orlando next week and...
Date: 05/30/2008
A common general SQL question just popped its head up in the Spatial Forum: when presented with a...
Date: 05/06/2008
Hi Folks, In previous posts about our new geography type, I've discussed ring orientation and...
Date: 05/03/2008
Hi Folks, I've been asked a few times how to find out what spatial columns are defined in a...
Date: 04/15/2008
Hi Folks, Perhaps it is surprising, based on the content here, that I'm not a full-time spatial head...
Date: 04/10/2008
Hi Folks, In my last indexing post, I filled in most of the details about our multi-level grid...
Date: 04/08/2008
Hi Folks, I recently got contacted via email with the following problem: ... I have 2 complex...
Date: 04/05/2008
Hi Folks, We don't call them betas, but that's basically what CTPs are: they let us suss out...
Date: 03/10/2008
Hi Folks, I just thought I'd take a few moments clarify the upcoming coordinate order swap for the...
Date: 03/05/2008
Hi Folks, Well, it looks like Ed finally started blogging. (I'll try not to let him take too much...
Date: 02/29/2008
Hi Folks, Last time, we highlighted several problems with a simple grid index. If you don't...
Date: 02/29/2008
Hi Folks, Well, I never did complete my series of posts describing our indexing scheme. I guess I...
Date: 02/05/2008