Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: Nearest distance from points to line segmenst Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:06:33 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <165d17b5-8db3-4564-9553-049a021d05b3@dm9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="nBFDv6s1VJQDuF1w6hpX2A"; logging-data="4862"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/prspDzpT4zAm5RdRF+Lwt" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sVFyO2hSy6s3YG61YMUc3dFgMxw= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:733 Harry B. (bongoplayer@gmail.com) writes: > I'm new to the spatial functionality of MS SQL Server 2008. > > I have a table tblPoints with about 3000 point coorodinates and > another table tblLines with about 100000 polygon coordinates. Each > polygons is made of various numbers of line segments. > > How looks the sql statement to get the nearest polygon or line segment > to each point? I recommend that you post your question to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlspatial/threads No matter how much like newsgroups over forum, the spatial stuff goes completely over my head, so I can't help. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx