STMPolyFromText (geography Data Type)
Applies to:
SQL Server
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Returns a geography 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
STMPolyFromText ( 'multipolygon_tagged_text' , SRID )
Note
To view Transact-SQL syntax for SQL Server 2014 (12.x) and earlier versions, see Previous versions documentation.
Arguments
multipolygon_tagged_text
Is the WKT representation of the geographyMultiPolygon instance you wish to return. multipolygon_tagged_text is an nvarchar(max) expression.
SRID
Is an int expression representing the spatial reference ID (SRID) of the geographyMultiPolygon instance you wish to return.
Return Types
SQL Server return type: geography
CLR return type: Sql Geography
OGC type: MultiPolygon
Remarks
This method throws a FormatException if the input is not well-formatted.
Examples
The following example uses STMPolyFromText()
to create a geography
instance.
DECLARE @g geography;
SET @g = geography::STMPolyFromText('MULTIPOLYGON(((-122.358 47.653, -122.348 47.649, -122.358 47.658, -122.358 47.653)), ((-122.341 47.656, -122.341 47.661, -122.351 47.661, -122.341 47.656)))', 4326);
SELECT @g.ToString();