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•Functions that access qualitative or quantitative properties of a geometry 

•Functions that describe relations between two geometries 

•Functions that create new geometries from existing ones 

For general background about MySQL support for using spatial data, see Section 11.4, “Spatial Data Types” . 

## 12.17.1 Spatial Function Reference 

The following table lists each spatial function and provides a short description of each one. 

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