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Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure
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Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure

by Anindita Basak, Krishnaswamy Venkataraman, Ryan Murphy, Manpreet Singh
December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Other functions

SAQL provides many other built-in functions to assist with a wide variety of computation scenarios. Other handy functions include geospatial functions for reading and writing geospatial data structures, an input metadata function to look up properties of the data source, conversion functions to change or work with data types, and mathematical functions to perform deterministic calculations on input values.

Following is a selection of other common and important SAQL functions:

  • CreatePoint: To return a GeoJSON point record, including a coordinates array. The result can be used for other geospatial functions

Syntax: CreatePoint (latitude, longitude)

Example: CreatePoint (3.0, -10.2) returns {"type" : "Point", "coordinates" ...

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