Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008 is one of the first books, if not the first, to show readers how to apply the new features in SQL Server 2008 for working with location-based, or spatial data. Location-based data is increasingly important in today’s world, and is used for such diverse applications as finding the nearest Starbucks online to tracking timber stands in national forests. Microsoft’s addition of a spatial feature set to SQL Server is evidence of how important location-based data is becoming in our world. This is the book readers need to take full-advantage of Microsoft’s offering.
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Alastair Aitchison has over 8 years experience as a management information consultant, specialising in the design and deployment of online reporting systems. For the last three years, he has been employed as a Reporting & Analysis Manager at Aviva, the world's fifth largest insurance group. In this role, he has championed the use of spatial data in corporate applications including the geographic analysis of risk patterns, plotting the success of regional marketing campaigns, and understanding the impact of major weather incidents. Alastair is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor, and has delivered numerous training courses to individuals and small groups on a range of software packages.
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Fantastic Introduction,
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When I started reading Alastair Aitchison's book on Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008 I thought to myself, "Wow, I'm glad this is the beginning book." The concepts that make up spatial data and the means necessary to store and retrieve this data from your SQL Server database are quite difficult. Luckily Mr. Aitchison has written this book. I've just read the entire thing, running most of the samples. My copy has a number of post-it flags hanging out all over the place on topics that I want to re-explore or explore in more depth. I'm already planning on handing this off to co-workers so that they can learn the basics of working with spatial data as well.
The book is very clearly written. All the examples I tried worked. As I said before, Mr. Aitchison does a great job of explaining very difficult concepts so that even someone completely new to the topic will understand. That's the goal of a beginners book and it is very well met. Now I want to see Intermediate Spatial please?
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I think this book is good for someone new to GIS. The feeling I get is that the author is paid by number of pages so we get some additional things like creating Web applications in Visual Studio which maybe could have been left for another book and instead focus on SQL Server 2008 and the functionality.....
SRP => focus on SQL Server 2008 is my wish.... Summary worth reading to get started but where is the next step......
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I will just start of by saying that this is a truly awesome book. Although I have tinkered a little with the new geospatial capabilities in a blog post, I did not really understand or know that there were some many nuances and things that you had to be careful about.
Did you know that there are different map projections? This book will show you the differences between the Hammer-Aitoff map projection, the Mercator map projection and the equirectangular map projection. You will also learn what the different spatial reference systems that SQL server 2008 supports are. If you are a SQL server developer and you have to incorporate some spatial data on your website or perhaps on your intranet then this is the book for you. The book is written in a casual style, things that might seem complicated at first are explained thoroughly over several pages. There are many images in this book (we all know that an image is a thousand words) which really help explain concepts. There are links in this book that point to great resources. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn about spatial data in SQL Server 2008. You will not be disappointed!
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virtual earth, geometry collection, geography datatype, geometry datatype, importing spatial data, new map object, spatial data objects, spatial datatypes, spatial reference identifier, geography column, gml namespace, individual coordinate values, geocoding function, spatial reference system, web handler, shapefile data, projected coordinate system, spatial column, equirectangular projection, following datatypes, polygon ring, empty geometry, polygon geometry, geography object, exterior ring Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Google Maps, Visual Studio, Web Service, Spatial Results, Server Management Studio, United States, Visual Basic, Express Edition, Add New Item, Google Earth, Solution Explorer, Click Add, Testing Whether, Northern Hemisphere, Open Geospatial Consortium, Select Case, Department of Defense Pentagon, Polygon Dim, Dim Coords, Well-Known Text, End While, Search Favorites, Well-Known Binary, Select Website, Great Britain Browse Sample Pages:
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virtual earth, geometry collection, geography datatype, geometry datatype, importing spatial data, new map object, spatial data objects, spatial datatypes, spatial reference identifier, geography column, gml namespace, individual coordinate values, geocoding function, spatial reference system, web handler, shapefile data, projected coordinate system, spatial column, equirectangular projection, following datatypes, polygon ring, empty geometry, polygon geometry, geography object, exterior ring Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Google Maps, Visual Studio, Web Service, Spatial Results, Server Management Studio, United States, Visual Basic, Express Edition, Add New Item, Google Earth, Solution Explorer, Click Add, Testing Whether, Northern Hemisphere, Open Geospatial Consortium, Select Case, Department of Defense Pentagon, Polygon Dim, Dim Coords, Well-Known Text, End While, Search Favorites, Well-Known Binary, Select Website, Great Britain Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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