STY (geometry Data Type)

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

The Y-coordinate property of a Point instance.

Syntax

  
.STY  

Return Types

SQL Server type: float

CLR type: SqlDouble

Remarks

The value of this property will be null if the geometry instance is a point. This property is read-only.

Examples

The following example creates a Point instance and uses STY to retrieve the Y-coordinate of the instance.

DECLARE @g geometry;  
SET @g = geometry::STGeomFromText('POINT(3 8)', 0);  
SELECT @g.STY;  

See Also

STX (geometry Data Type)
STSrid (geometry Data Type)
OGC Methods on Geometry Instances