M (geometry Data Type)

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

The M (measure) value of the geometry instance. The semantics of the measure value are user-defined.

Syntax

  
.M  

Arguments

Return Types

SQL Server type: float

CLR type: SqlDouble

Remarks

The value of this property is null if the geometry instance is not a Point, as well as for any Point instance for which it is not set.

This property is read-only.

M values are not used in any calculations made by the library and will not be carried through any library calculations.

Examples

The following example creates a Point instance with Z (elevation) and M (measure) values and uses M to fetch the M value of the instance.

DECLARE @g geometry;  
SET @g = geometry::STGeomFromText('POINT(1 2 3 4)', 0);  
SELECT @g.M;  

See Also

Extended Methods on Geometry Instances
Z (geometry Data Type)
AsTextZM (geometry Data Type)