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Just getting started with Spatial. Have a SDO_POINT_TYPE layer in 8307 (Geodetic Lat/Lon/Height) 3-dim, indexed with 2-dim (Lat/Lon) and want to know what the best way is to perform point-in-polygon queries on this layer (e.g. basic web-mapping interface)? I recently tried SDO_GEOM.RELATE but it was extremely slow, and incorrect....certainly something I'm doing wrong.
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Thanks in advance,
Michael

Thanks very much.
However, I the query doesn't seem to be giving me what I think it should. My index is two dimensions:
create index I_MONUMENT_SHAPE on MONUMENT_CATALOG (SHAPE)
INDEXTYPE IS MDSYS.SPATIAL_INDEX PARAMETERS('layer_gtype=POINT sdo_indx_dims=2');
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select mc.char_id as "ID",mc.shape as "Shape" from monument_catalog mc
where SDO_RELATE(mc.shape,MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,8307,null,MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,1),
-- MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-110,20,-110,30,-100,30,-100,20,-110,20)),'mask=inside querytype=WINDOW') = 'TRUE';
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-110,20,-110,30,-100,30,-100,20,-110,20)),'mask=anyinteract') = 'TRUE';
ID Shape(SDO_GTYPE, SDO_SRID, SDO_POINT(X, Y, Z), SDO_ELEM_INFO, SDO_ORDINATES)
BURR SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-110.066, 23.516, 535.02537), NULL, NULL)
ANCN SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-110.03, 23.739, 481.56558), NULL, NULL)
LPAZ SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-110.319, 24.139, -26.9092), NULL, NULL)
BLND SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-110.309, 24.326, -10.21309), NULL, NULL)
"vanilla sql" query:
select mc.char_id as "ID",mc.shape as "Shape" from monument_catalog mc
where mc.shape.SDO_POINT.X < -100
and mc.shape.SDO_POINT.X > -110
and mc.shape.SDO_POINT.Y < 30
and mc.shape.SDO_POINT.Y > 20;
ID Shape(SDO_GTYPE, SDO_SRID, SDO_POINT(X, Y, Z), SDO_ELEM_INFO, SDO_ORDINATES)
CEBO SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.161, 20.09, 2009.12022), NULL, NULL)
JARA SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-101.8, 21.264, 2016.36392), NULL, NULL)
UMON SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.453, 20.737, 1626.65695), NULL, NULL)
ineg SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-102.284, 21.856, 1888.67922), NULL, NULL)
AYUT SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-104.374, 20.188, 1648.7741), NULL, NULL)
CHAC SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-105.429, 20.383, 280.64762), NULL, NULL)
COSA SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.325, 20.293, 1730.68995), NULL, NULL)
GUAC SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-104.354, 20.501, 1581.31376), NULL, NULL)
MCAB SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.493, 21.092, 1682.41884), NULL, NULL)
SEBA SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-104.871, 20.699, 1973.90223), NULL, NULL)
ECER SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-109.81, 24.18, 89.31145), NULL, NULL)
EMIR SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-109.735, 23.366, 192.75321), NULL, NULL)
RIVE SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-109.532, 23.549, 40.95293), NULL, NULL)
LIM2 SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.528, 20.335, 1652.13807), NULL, NULL)
SAUZ SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.225, 20.885, 1699.7295), NULL, NULL)
7122 SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-106.459, 23.343, 27.9281), NULL, NULL)
3033 SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-109.086, 25.692, -30.58101), NULL, NULL)
7882 SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-109.864, 22.918, 115.09006), NULL, NULL)
LIMA SDO_GEOMETRY(3001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-103.548, 20.37, 2112.2829), NULL, NULL)
Any idea why the SDO_RELATE query seems to be giving me stuff just ---outside--- my query window rather that stuff that lies inside?
Thanks,
Michael

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too), which unfortunately is dead now in favour of all sort of "Power" tools that basically can’t deliver the same functionality.
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apply necessary filters and get the data out in Excel or CSV, no fancy (or even simple) aggregation or formatting is required, and users should only see the rows they are authorized to see, i.e. row level security (RLS) of data.
Let’s see what we have at our disposal from MS BI:
From the modeling perspective, we have relational models in the database that support RLS with views, but obviously cannot maintain PK-FK relationships in the database model between views. Other
models are .Net Entity Data model Framework model exposed as OData, and SSAS tabular, SSAS PowerPivot, SSAS multidimensional, which you can find a good comparison of their features here:
http://www.sqlchick.com/entries/2012/3/4/decisions-powerpivot-ssas-tabular -or-ssas-multidimensional-m.html
From the tools perspective we have:
Power Query on top of a relational database (SQL Server): Can connect to relational databases easily, generated queries are optimal, detects relationships with entities, but only when entities
are tables and have PK-FK relationships enforced in the database. So can’t detect relationships with views and hence can’t enforce RLS, so this is not an option unless users keep joining entities, which is not a desirable option either.
Power Query on top of an OData: Works well except that queries generated for multiple entity expansion are terrible (look here for more details:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7a8b8e52-d3a9-42af-bc52-9d5459c00529/odata-multilevel-expand-query-issue?forum=powerquery). In addition all filtering and projections are done at client side, so even if you want 1 row out of 1 million, all
rows are brought over to Excel before filtered. Overall this results in unacceptable performance even for small sized data.
Power Query on top of a tabular model: Doesn’t support that type of data source yet (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ebcccb5e-7058-4046-917d-3d7fcf60cbdc/tabular-model-as-data-source-for-power-query?forum=powerquery).
Even if it did, tabular models don’t support Many-to-Many relationships out of the box and not sure if there are plans to support tabular models in Direct Query mode in Power Query to take care of RLS.
Excel on top of tabular models or multidimensional models: The tabular model should not be in Direct Query mode and you only get to use PivotTable to query the model. PivotTables are not famous
for generating optimal MDX queries, so performance is not going to be acceptable if you are dealing with large dimensions, especially large junk and degenerate dimensions. You can use drilltrough to get details of a measure, but you have to specify the columns
for a drilltrough action upfront, no flexibility for users to select what they want to see.
PowerPivot on top of relational databases: The query designer cannot detect relationships between views, so users have to perform manual joins, not an option.
PowerPivot on top of a multidimensional or tabular model: The query designer doesn’t generate optimal MDX queries by drag and drop. Especially there doesn’t seem to be a way to add related
attributes of a dimension attribute to the query without cross joins which results in poor performance on large dimensions. Other issues found here
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2010/08/24/using-ssas-2005-2008-as-powerpivot-data-source-query-designer.aspx. In addition the result set has ugly column names and issues with data types, such as interpreting numeric data types as Text, and
there’s no straight forward way of getting the data from PowerPivot directly to Excel. The user either has to do a copy/paste (which doesn’t work on large datasets) or create a pivot table, bring the measure, and drillthrough the measure to get the details
in table format.
PowerPivot with OData: Treats every entity as a separate table to import, not suitable for our use case.
Report Builder and SSRS on top of relational, multidimensional or tabular model: Given the query designer is the same as PowerPivot, it has similar issues. In addition, there are 4 more steps
from designing a query to generating an Excel or CSV output, not an option.
PowerView: Works against tabular and multidimensional models, but there’s no way of exporting data to Excel sheet. Besides the add-in is not available for Excel 2010.
Good old MS-Access: Link to tables and views through ODBC, create relationships between entities and give each user a copy of that Access database to create their queries, and deal with the
nightmares of updates to the model and distribution of new models to the users! Did I mention Access as an option?
So there you go, 10 options, none of which can deal with a seemingly simple use case sufficiently. At the moment, the best among them appears to be option 6 against a heavily optimized OLAP
cube, and perhaps #3 when/if Power Query support for tabular models in direct query mode arrives. Perhaps I am missing something very obvious, and would like someone to enlighten me here.
Thanks
MR

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https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/ld.1.html
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You should never load a resource file until it is actually needed. Prefetching resource files may seem like a way to save time, but this practice actually slows down your app right away. In addition, if you end up not using the resource, loading it wastes memory for no good purpose.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneos programmingguide/PerformanceTuning/PerformanceTuning.html
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3789

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