How to store longitude & latitude as a geography in sql server 2014?

Question

I have locations in longitude and latitude coordinates. My goal is eventually to be able to select all rows from myTable Where distance is less than 2km.

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Answer 1

You can convert lat and long to a point and save it in table.

Declare @geo Geography, @Lat varchar(10), @long varchar(10)

SET @Lat = '34.738925' SET @Long = '-92.39764'

SET @geo= geography::Point(@LAT, @LONG, 4326)