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You have a database that tracks orders and deliveries for customers in North America. The database contains the following tables:
Sales.Customers

Application.Cities

Sales.CustomerCategories

Your company is developing a new social application that connects customers to each other based on the distance between their delivery locations.
You need to write a query that returns the nearest customer.
Solution: You run the following Transact-SQL statement:

The variable @custID is set to a valid customer.
Does the solution meet the goal?
Correct Answer: A
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
ShortestLineTo (geometry Data Type) Returns a LineString instance with two points that represent the shortest distance between the two geometry instances. The length of the LineString instance returned is the distance between the two geometry instances.
STLength (geometry Data Type) returns the total length of the elements in a geometry instance.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/spatial-geometry/shortestlineto-geometry-data-type