ADQLGeomOnSQLServer < IVOA

---+ SQLServer & ADQL geometric functions

Page for discussions about supporting the ADQL geometric functions in SQLServer.

---++ Current deployments

---+++ ROE

The main science archives at ROE are hosted on a set of SQLServer 2012 databases.  They have HTM-based regional queries enabled using SQL Server's built-in geometric functions, but these are not connected to the TAP services.

Our current TAP services do not support the ADQL geometric functions.

---+++ MAST

Many MAST holdings, including the Registry and a growing set of multimission data in ObsCore, are hosted on a set of SQLServer databases.

Nearly completed TAP services are not currently published. Release is held up on a library for parsing ADQL to SQL Server-flavoured queries. It needs to handle differences in left/etc join syntax (some canned TOMCAT RegTAP queries don't work), the ivo_string_agg function (for RegTap only), and ADQL geometric functions.

Brian McLean has written a series of database procedures mapping the HTM-based regional queries used by existing MAST services to the SQL Server's built-in geometric functions. Testing suggests similar performance to the old HTM-based system.

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Topic revision: r4 - 2014-10-21 - MarkHolliman