Sql-docs: Units???

[eliotg]

What are the units of the tolerance parameter? Meters? Percentage? Light years? Inverse femptobarns?

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• Content: Reduce (geography Data Type ) - SQL Server
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[MikeRayMSFT]

@eliotg thanks for the question - I'm going to get an answer - but it's probably not Inverse femptobarns:)

[MikeRayMSFT]

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[MikeRayMSFT]

The unit is same as for the other unit aware operations such as STDistance – the one inherited from Srid.

Default Srid – 4326 -> meters