SAP HANA Spatial Access Functions (ST_X, ST_Dimension)
The concept name provided is "undefined," and the supplied sources cover SAP HANA Spatial topics such as strings, points, polygons, Z and M coordinates, access methods, computation methods, and adding planar geometries — none of which define a concept called "undefined." There is insufficient information in the provided sources to write a grounded definition for this concept.
Tutorials that teach this
- Tutorial Understand Points in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Access methods
- Tutorial Understand Polygons in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Understand Strings in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Understand Z and M coordinates in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Computation methods
- Tutorial Add Planar Geometries to SAP HANA Database in SAP HANA Cloud
Prerequisites
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Type Hierarchy and SQL/MM Standard A **point** in SAP HANA Spatial is the most fundamental geometry type, representing a single location in a coordinate space defined by X and Y values. Developers use points to store and work with precise positional data — such as the location of a place on a map — within spatial columns in SAP HANA database tables. Spatial columns, as described in [SAP HANA Spatial tutorials](https://developers.sap.com/), are special column types that allow developers to persist and query geometry objects like points directly in the database.
- Concept SAP HANA Cloud Spatial Engine The concept name was not provided (marked as "undefined"), and the available source snippets do not contain enough extractable detail — most are bare tutorial titles without body text — to construct a fully grounded 2–4 sentence prose definition. Please supply the concept name and richer source excerpts so an accurate definition can be written.
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Column Types (ST_GEOMETRY, ST_POINT) The concept name is missing or undefined, so a precise definition cannot be written. Please provide the specific SAP developer concept you would like defined so it can be accurately described based on the available sources.
- Concept SQL Querying Fundamentals (SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY) The concept name was not provided, so a precise definition cannot be generated. Please supply a valid concept name along with supporting source snippets so that an accurate, grounded definition can be written.
Concepts that build on this
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Z and M Coordinate Dimensions
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Polygon Types and Operations
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial LineString and CircularString Types
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Aggregation Methods (ST_UnionAggr, ST_EnvelopeAggr, ST_ConvexHullAggr)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Distance Calculation
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Transformation Methods (ST_Boundary, ST_Envelope, ST_ConvexHull, ST_Buffer)