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STGeomFromText (geometry Data Type)

Returns a geometry 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.

Syntax

STGeomFromText ( 'geometry_tagged_text' ,SRID)

Arguments

  • geometry_tagged_text
    Is the WKT representation of the geometry instance you wish to return. geometry_tagged_text is an nvarchar(max) expression.

  • SRID
    Is an int expression representing the spatial reference ID (SRID) of the geometry instance you wish to return.

Return Types

SQL Server return type: geometry

CLR return type: SqlGeometry

Remarks

The OGC type of the geometry instance returned by STGeomFromText() is set to the corresponding WKT input.

This method will throw a FormatException if the input is not well-formatted.

Examples

The following example uses STGeomeFromText() to create a geometry instance.

DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = geometry::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING (100 100, 20 180, 180 180)', 0);
SELECT @g.ToString();

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