... a few references to SQL Server. Generally speaking, the logical model of anyrelational database will be the same, be it for SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL, or any-thing else based, ... when dealing with SQL Server. Many programmers think that since theyalways receive the same results on their sandbox server (often a single processor/single disk chan-nel arrangement) ... latitude). The ability to represent these values in SQL Server data was actually new to SQL Server 2005 andwill be discussed in Chapter 5. In 2008, we now have spatial datatypes that represent...