I am not a SQL Database Administror or programmer but work with the GIS data recently added to a SQL Spatial Server.
The data had been on an ArcGIS SDE 9.x server which was being used by the ArcGIS applications AND Autodesk Map (or Civil). Everything was fine on that server. Once it was brought over to SQL Server and a user connected to the data from the Autodesk product, all three geometry datatypes (point, line, polygon) would show in the application window (not in the actual drawing or model - only the one would show there) although only one would be valid (the data is only a point, a polygon, or a line and not 'multi-geometry'). However, when the ArCGIS application accessed the same data, only the proper data type appeared.
After taking the issue to Auotdesk I was told that in order for this to be read correctly (ONLY the one geometry type to be shown in the applicaiton window) this would have to be set up at the server level.
Can the data be specified or defined as only what is should actualy represent at the SQL Server Spatial level? How is it one application knows it is only a polygon and another recognizes the extraneous geometry type?
Thanks in advance,
Barry