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<DIV>AD is Active Directory. I was planning on using it for authentication. I forgot who it was that said it, but they felt that mg's security was "broken". <BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Ed Jobe</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Jason Birch <Jason.Birch@nanaimo.ca><BR>To: MapGuide Users Mail List <mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org><BR>Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:28:21 AM<BR>Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] SQL Import Spatial Data<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Not sure what AD is.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">SQL Server 2008 does not support curves. Not much to elaborate on there </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings">J</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">It also does not (or at least did not in the RCs that I tested) support spatial queries against invalid (by OGC definition) geometries. Any data error would cause spatial queries to throw an exception. This causes problems because Autodesk allows you to create invalid geometries, and every single MapGuide query includes an EnvelopeIntersects spatial filter.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">You may want to test for yourself against the final version of SQL Server 2008 (I havenąt played with it yet) but my understanding was that this behaviour wouldnąt be altered before release.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'"> Re: [mapguide-users] SQL Import Spatial Data</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">Could you please elaborate on this. I have recieved mssql 2008 and was considering using it with AD for my app.<BR><BR></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>