STLineFromText (geometry Data Type)

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

Returns a geometry 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

  
STLineFromText ( 'linestring_tagged_text' , SRID )  

Arguments

linestring_tagged_text
Is the WKT representation of the geometryLineString instance you wish to return. linestring_tagged_text is an nvarchar(max) expression.

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

Return Types

SQL Server return type: geometry

CLR return type: SqlGeometry

OGC type: LineString

Remarks

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

Examples

The following example uses STLineFromText() to create a geometry instance.

DECLARE @g geometry;  
SET @g = geometry::STLineFromText('LINESTRING (100 100, 200 200)', 0);  
SELECT @g.ToString();  

See Also

OGC Static Geometry Methods