STPointFromWKB (geography Data Type)

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance

Returns a geographyPoint instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation.

Syntax

  
STPointFromWKB ( 'WKB_point' , SRID )

Note

To view Transact-SQL syntax for SQL Server 2014 (12.x) and earlier versions, see Previous versions documentation.

WKB_point
Is the WKB representation of the geographyPoint instance you wish to return. WKB_point is a varbinary(max) expression.

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

SQL Server return type: geography

CLR return type: SqlGeography

OGC type: Point

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

The following example uses STPointFromWKB() to create a geography instance.

DECLARE @g geography;  
SET @g = geography::STPointFromWKB(0x010100000017D9CEF753D347407593180456965EC0, 4326);  
SELECT @g.ToString();