Well-Known Text (WKT) and ST_GeomFromText in SAP HANA
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Tutorials that teach this
- Tutorial Understand Strings in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Determine the Distance to a Target POI
- Tutorial Understand Z and M coordinates in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Understand Points in SAP HANA Spatial
- Tutorial Explore Visualization Options for Spatial Data in SAP HANA Cloud
- Tutorial Understand Polygons in SAP HANA Spatial
Prerequisites
- Concept SAP HANA Cloud fundamentals The concept name was not provided, and the available source snippets do not contain enough detail to define a specific SAP developer concept with accuracy. The sources reference topics such as [setting up database artifacts](https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/3cd69547217949e098fb4f2a88aa6d33?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=Cloud) in SAP HANA, connecting via JDBC, spatial data visualization, and migrating to SAP HANA Cloud, but no specific concept name or substantive explanatory content was supplied to ground a precise definition.
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) The concept name is missing or undefined, so a specific definition cannot be written. Please provide a valid SAP developer concept to define.
- 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.
- 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 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 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 In-Memory Relational Database The concept name was not provided (marked as "undefined"), and the available source snippets do not contain sufficient detail to construct a grounded, accurate reference definition. Only one source ([S1]) references a relevant topic — setting up database artifacts using SAP HANA — but without a named concept to define, a precise and accurate definition cannot be written per the documentation guidelines.
Concepts that build on this
- Concept SQL Querying Fundamentals (SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY)
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Predicates and Geometry Methods
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Transformation Methods (ST_Boundary, ST_Envelope, ST_ConvexHull, ST_Buffer)
- Concept Spatial Coordinate Transformation with ST_Transform
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial LineString and CircularString Types
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Polygon Types and Operations
- Concept SAP HANA Spatial Distance Calculation
- Concept Querying Points of Interest with SAP HANA Spatial