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I will just start of by saying that Beginning Spatial With SQL Server 2008 written by Alastair Aitchison is a truly awesome book. Although I have tinkered a little with the new geospatial capabilities in the SQL Server 2008 Proximity Search With The Geography Data Type blog post I did not really understand or know that ...
George and I decided to show you how you can do simple radius searches based on Zip Codes, he did the SQL 2005 and before version here: SQL Server Zipcode Latitude/Longitude proximity distance search and I will do the SQL Server 2008 version.
The first thing we need to do is load our data. There are various sources for this data, ranging from free to expensive monthly subscriptions. One source of free data is: http://d...
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