STAsText (geography Data Type)
Returns the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation of a geography instance. This text will not contain any Z (elevation) or M (measure) values carried by the instance.
Syntax
.STAsText ( )
Return Types
SQL Server return type: nvarchar(max)
CLR return type: SqlChars
Examples
The following example uses STAsText() to create a LineStringgeography instance from (-122.360, 47.656) to (-122.343, 47.656) from text. It then returns the result in text.
DECLARE @g geography;
SET @g = geography::STGeomFromText('LINESTRING(-122.360 47.656, -122.343 47.656)', 4326);
SELECT @g.STAsText();