SqlGeography Methods
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Types (in Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | AsBinaryZM() | Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation of a SqlGeography instance augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| AsGml() | Returns the Geography Markup Language (GML) representation of a SqlGeography instance. |
| AsTextZM() | Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation of a SqlGeography instance augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| BufferWithCurves(Double) | Returns a SqlGeography instance that represents the set of all points whose distance from the calling SqlGeography instance is less than or equal to the distance parameter. |
| BufferWithTolerance(Double, Double, Boolean) | Returns a geometric object representing the union of all point values whose distance from a SqlGeography instance is less than or equal to a specified value, allowing for a specified tolerance. |
| CurveToLineWithTolerance(Double, Boolean) | Returns a polygonal approximation of a SqlGeography instance that contains circular arc segments. |
 | Deserialize(SqlBytes) | Returns a constructed SqlGeometry from an internal SQL Server format for spatial data. Can be used for sending spatial data over the network or reading them from files. |
| EnvelopeAngle() | Returns the maximum angle between the point returned by EnvelopeCenter and a point in the SqlGeography instance in degrees. |
| EnvelopeCenter() | Returns a point that can be used as the center of a bounding circle for the geography instance. |
| Equals(Object) | (Inherited from Object.) |
| Filter(SqlGeography) | Offers a fast, index-only intersection method to determine if a geography instance intersects another SqlGeography instance, assuming an index is available. |
| GeomFromGml(SqlXml, Int32) | Constructs a SqlGeography instance given a representation in the SQL Server subset of the Geography Markup Language (GML). |
| GetHashCode() | (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType() | (Inherited from Object.) |
| InstanceOf(String) | Tests if the SqlGeography instance is the same as the specified type. |
| IsValidDetailed() | Returns a message to help identify validity issues with a spatial object. |
| MakeValid() | Converts a geography instance that is not valid into a valid geography instance with a valid Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) type. |
| MinDbCompatibilityLevel() | Returns the minimum database compatibility that accepts the SqlGeography type. |
| NumRings() | Returns the total number of rings in a Polygon instance. |
| Parse(SqlString) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation. |
| Point(Double, Double, Int32) | Constructs a SqlGeography instance representing a Point instance from its x and y values and a spatial reference ID (SRID). |
| Populate(IGeographySink) | Obsolete. Applies a geography type call sequence to IGeographySink object. The call sequence is a set of figures, lines, and points for geography types. |
| Populate(IGeographySink110) | Applies a geography type call sequence to IGeographySink object. |
| Read(BinaryReader) | Reads a binary representation of a geography type into a SqlGeometry object. |
| Reduce(Double) | Returns an approximation of the given geography instance produced by running the Douglas-Peucker algorithm on the instance with the given tolerance. |
| ReorientObject() | Returns a geography instance with interchanged interior regions and exterior regions. |
| RingN(Int32) | Returns the specified ring of the SqlGeography instance: 1 ≤ n ≤ NumRings(). |
| Serialize() | Used for sending spatial data across the network. |
| ShortestLineTo(SqlGeography) | Returns the shortest distance between the two SqlGeographyinstances. |
| STArea() | Returns the total surface area of a SqlGeography instance. |
| STAsBinary() | Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation of a SqlGeography instance. |
| STAsText() | Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation of a SqlGeography instance. |
| STBuffer(Double) | Returns a geography object that represents the union of all points whose distance from a SqlGeography instance is less than or equal to a specified value. |
| STContains(SqlGeography) | Specifies whether the calling SqlGeography instance spatially contains the SqlGeography instance passed to the method. |
| STConvexHull() | Returns an object that represents the convex hull of a SqlGeography instance. |
| STCurveN(Int32) | Returns the curve specified from a SqlGeography instance that is a LineString, CircularString, or CompoundCurve. |
| STCurveToLine() | Returns a polygonal approximation of a SqlGeography instance that contains circular arc segments. |
| STDifference(SqlGeography) | Returns an object representing the points from one SqlGeography instance that do not lie within another SqlGeography instance. |
| STDimension() | Returns the maximum dimension of a SqlGeography instance |
| STDisjoint(SqlGeography) | Determines whether the calling SqlGeography instance is spatially disjoint from the specified SqlGeography instance. |
| STDistance(SqlGeography) | Returns the shortest distance between a point in a SqlGeography instance and a point in another SqlGeography instance. |
| STEndPoint() | Returns the end point of a SqlGeography instance. |
| STEquals(SqlGeography) | Determines whether the specified SqlGeography instance has the same point set as the calling SqlGeography instance. |
| STGeomCollFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a geography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STGeomCollFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a GeometryCollection instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STGeometryN(Int32) | Returns a specified geography element in a GeometryCollection or one of its subtypes. |
| STGeometryType() | Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) type name represented by a geography instance. |
| STGeomFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STGeomFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STIntersection(SqlGeography) | Returns an object representing the points where a SqlGeography instance intersects another SqlGeography instance. |
| STIntersects(SqlGeography) | Determines whether the current SqlGeography instance intersects with the specified SqlGeography. |
| STIsClosed() | Determines whether the calling SqlGeography instance is closed. |
| STIsEmpty() | Determines whether the SqlGeography instance is empty. |
| STIsValid() | Specifies whether a geography instance is well-formed and recognized as a valid geography object based on its Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) type. |
| STLength() | Returns the total length of the elements in a SqlGeography instance or the SqlGeography instances within a GeometryCollection. |
| STLineFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STLineFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STMLineFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STMLineFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography MultiLineString instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STMPointFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STMPointFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography MultiPoint instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STMPolyFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STMPolyFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography MultiPolygon instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STNumCurves() | Returns the number of curves in a one-dimensional SqlGeography instance. |
| STNumGeometries() | Returns the number of geometries that make up a SqlGeography instance. |
| STNumPoints() | Returns the total number of points in each of the figures in a SqlGeography instance |
| STOverlaps(SqlGeography) | Returns 1 if a SqlGeography instance spatially overlaps another SqlGeography instance, or 0 if it does not. |
| STPointFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STPointFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography Point instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STPointN(Int32) | Returns the specified point in a SqlGeography instance. |
| STPolyFromText(SqlChars, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance. |
| STPolyFromWKB(SqlBytes, Int32) | Returns a SqlGeography Polygon instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation. |
| STStartPoint() | Returns the start point of a SqlGeography instance. |
| STSymDifference(SqlGeography) | Returns an object representing all points that are either in one SqlGeography instance or another SqlGeography instance, but not those points that lie in both instances. |
| STUnion(SqlGeography) | Returns an object representing the union of a SqlGeography instance with another SqlGeography instance. |
| STWithin(SqlGeography) | Returns 1 if a SqlGeography instance is spatially within another SqlGeography instance; otherwise, returns 0. |
| ToString() | Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation of a SqlGeography instance augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance.(Overrides Object.ToString().) |
| Write(BinaryWriter) | Writes a SqlGeography object to a binary stream. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
  | ISqlSpatialGridIndexable.BufferForDistanceQuery(Double, Boolean) | Returns the buffer for distance query for the SQL Geography. |
| ISqlSpatialGridIndexable.GetBoundingBoxCorners(Double, Double, Double, Double) | Returns a value for the bounding box corners for the SQL Geography. |
| ISqlSpatialGridIndexable.GetGridCoverage(Boolean, Double, Double, Double, Double, Double, Double, Int32, Int32, Boolean[,], Boolean[,], Int32, Int32, Boolean, Boolean) | Returns the grid coverage of the SQL Geography. |
| ISqlSpatialGridIndexable.InteriorBufferForDistanceQuery(Double) | Gets the interior buffer for distance query for the SQL Geography. |