Several major database systems provide extensions to support the management and analysis of spatial data in a relational database system (IBM02, Ora01 and IBM01).

Since 1996, ESRI customers who wanted to use SQL Server as a data repository had to use an ESRI Web service add-on to manage the data. The biggest advantages to having native SQL support for spatial ...

From a database perspective, business constraints provide an accurate picture of the real world being modeled and help enforce data integrity. Typically, rules are gathered during requirements ...

News SQL Server 2008 To Offer Spatial Data Type Support sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data ...