Monday, December 5, 2016

Is there a spatial data visualizer on SQL Anywhere 17?

The short answer is yes.

Following globalization and opening of data centers all over the world, visualizing spatial data has become urgent and is supported by applications as well as databases.

SQL Anywhere 17 does have a spatial data viewer and you will have to invoke it in the Interactive. The procedure is as follows:

There is table called SpatialShapes in the 'demo' database which has several geometric shapes in each row of it's SpatialShapes table.

After connecting to the 'demo' database right click the SpatialShapes(GROUPO) table to reveal a drop-down list as shown.


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In the above drop-down pick the first option, View data in Interactive SQL. The Interactive SQL windows appears as shown with a Select query.

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Click Tools to display the drop-down list.

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Click Spatial Viewer in the list to open the Spatial Viewer1 window as shown.




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 Click Execute at the bottom of the above window to display the graphic view of the data which consists of a variety of geometrical shapes as shown.




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