Advanced Performance Tuning of Location-Aware Applications in SQL Server 2008 : Indexing Strategies & Techniques

Increasing amounts of data-centric applications add spatial information such as GPS coordinates, vehicle routes, manufacturing floor layouts, map services etc. With the introduction of the new spatial capabilities in SQL Server 2008, new capabilities have become available to the database developer to manage and query such information efficiently. In this session we will present a deep dive into how developers can work with spatial data in SQL Server and how to use spatial indexing to scale to large amounts of spatial data.