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Developer Tips - Qualified field names in ArcSDE

This post was provided by geodatabase Product Engineer James MacKay. There are fourteen field names that cause fields to behave slightly different in ArcSDE. They are: AREA POINTS FID EMINX EMINY EMINZ MIN_MEASURE LEN NUMOFPTS ENTITY EMAXX EMAXY EMAXZ

Road Ahead - Merge Conflicting Geometries

A conflict on the geometries or the shape attribute of a feature class will arise any time the shape has changed on the same feature in the two different versions being reconciled. At 9.2 and earlier ArcGIS releases, if there was a conflict on the shape

Developer Tips - Using the Field Checker

This post was written by geodatabase Product Engineer James MacKay. James works on the geodatabase development team and is responsible for a lot of the geodatabase SDK that is generated. The IFieldChecker interface provides a way to validate fields for

New Georeferencing Video in Raster Web Help

Just a heads up to tell you that we’ve posted a georeferencing video in the raster section of the help. We’ve been receiving a lot of support calls about georeferencing so hopefully this video will help people understand and implement it a little better.

Five Best Practices for Maintaining an ArcSDE Geodatabase

This blog entry has been taken from a podcast previously recorded by Derek Law from the geodatabase team. We really liked the podcast and thought there was some valuable info to be shared. To hear the podcast and check out other useful podcast topics