Description

The POINTFROMTEXT() function generates a GEOGRAPHY_POINT value from a string containing a well known text (WKT) representation of a geographic point. The WKT string must be in the form 'POINT( longitude latitude )' where longitude and latitude are floating point values.

if the argument is not a valid WKT representation of a point, the function generates an error.

Example

The following example uses the POINTFROMTEXT() function to update a record containing a GEOGRAPHY_POINT column using two floating point input values (representing longitude and latitude).

UPDATE user SET location = 
   POINTFROMTEXT( 
     CONCAT('POINT(',CAST(? AS VARCHAR),' ',CAST(? AS VARCHAR),')') 
   )
   WHERE id = ?;