✳️Select * from “Where” ??!!!!!⁉️🌐 🤔Or how to really make your database to answer the “Where” question
I love Geography, Spatial Data analysis, systems, and programming.
Knowing how to answer complex questions with data, especially with spatial data.
Using relational databases with SQL language and spatial makes the best of breed for me.
In this post, I will explain what SQL spatial is and what it can do for you.
First, some basics about SQL and spatial:
A relational database is a structured collection of data for storage, retrieval, and management.
SQL, or Structured Query Language, is the tool used to interact with relational databases efficiently.
Spatial SQL extends these capabilities to geographic information: storage, querying, and analysis of spatial data or spatial-related data, within the database.Spatial SQL provides the ability of Spatial analysis to a wide range of roles in the organization and beyond. In a common known platform, place, and shared language.
From the DBA to the developer, almost everyone can use it.
The advantages of using SQL with spatial include:
Streamlined data managementEnforced data integrityScalability 
for growth, optimized query processing, high-speed
performance for big dataBroad application across the organization and beyond itUsability, reuse 
of processes, efficiencyDocumentation and sharingDevelopment ready: for back ends and front endsIntegration with any client-side, desktop software, or web
Utilizing a database, adding to it the spatial dimension with important external spatial data for enriching and analyzing, will give you the ability to use SQL’s built-in spatial queries, together with the “regular” SQL queries.
It will transform your data and analysis to really answer the questions:
“Where” together with “What”, “When”, and” Why”, gives you accurate and new results and answers.
So the basic SQL query of “Select .. From .. Where” will really give you the answer to “Where”…
Such as:
❔Where is the optimal location for a new location?🥇
❔Where are all the customers that are located near that store? What is their income rate?🏦
❔What is the distance between my shops? My competitors?📏
And many more questions that only Spatial SQL can answer if you just know how to ask…
If you need help, we will be happy to assist…
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I’m Ran Tzkhori, a Geo-Spatial data and Spatial systems expert.
We help organizations find fast answers with the aid of spatial data and spatial SQL in their existing or new systems.
If you need advice, don’t hesitate to reach me.
