{"id":522,"date":"2011-10-26T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/New-Wiki-posting-SQL-Server-2012-spatial-features-available-in-SQL-Azure-now!.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-03T23:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T07:59:26","slug":"new-wiki-posting-sql-server-2012-spatial-features-available-in-sql-azure-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/new-wiki-posting-sql-server-2012-spatial-features-available-in-sql-azure-now\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wiki posting: SQL Server 2012 spatial features available in SQL Azure now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA short while ago, I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/bobb\/sql-denali-t-sql-features-in-sql-azure-now\/\" class=\"broken_link\">blog entry<\/a> about SQL Server 2012 features that are currently available in SQL Azure. In that post, I mentioned that Ed Katibah would publish an article detailing the current state of the SQL Server 2012 spatial features in SQL Azure, in detail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/wiki\/contents\/articles\/new-spatial-features-in-the-sql-azure-q2-2011-service-release.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">That article<\/a> is now available at the Technet Wiki. Note that not all features are available currently, and Ed has a nice detailed chart that covers this feature-by-feature. Thanks, Ed! And, as with the SQL features in SQL Azure, the available spatial features will increase in future as parity with SQL Server 2012 RTM is acheived. Watch this space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n@bobbeauch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short while ago, I wrote a blog entry about SQL Server 2012 features that are currently available in SQL Azure. 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