2008 User Conference Presentations - Geodatabase Editing Workflows: Parts 1 & 2

The geodatabase editing workflow presentations are a good way to get introduced to editing in a geodatabase and become familiar with editing workflows and processes designed to meet the needs of GIS professionals.

Like the Geodatabase Essentials presentations Geodatabase Editing Workflows is split into two parts: An Introduction and Advanced.

Here’s what Derek Law had to say when I asked him about the scope of the Introduction session:

“In our Geodatabase Editing Workflows session Kasia and I will be covering a range of introductory editing topics. We’ll be talking about the different editing environments available within an ArcSDE geodatabase. That is to say we’ll be explaining non-versioned editing, versioned editing, and versioned editing with the option to move edits to base. We’ll be tackling these in kind of a what happens behind the scenes approach, and also look at workflow considerations and how to manage data changes. Our session introduces the major concepts and lays down the foundation for Tony and Rob’s session on more advanced geodatabase editing workflows.”

As a co-presenter for the second part of the presentations, Rob Rader had this to say about the Advanced session:

“In our follow up to Derek and Kasia’s tech workshop Tony, Tom, and I will be expanding on the editing topics that they introduced with more advanced geodatabase editing workflows. We’ll be covering non-versioned editing workflows and look into some more complex functionality such as geodatabase archiving and replication. From there we’ll have a discussion on versioned editing, how to deal with conflicts, and offer some workflow recommendations. I would suggest attending this session if you find yourself implementing more complex workflows or maybe you feel you need to. It’s a good way to get a look at some recommended workflows and see some key versioning, archiving and replication techniques.”

Here are the outlines for their sessions:

Geodatabase Editing Workflows – An Introduction
Derek Law; Kasia Tuszynska

Room 6C
Wednesday, August 6 – 8:30am – 9:45am
Thursday, August 7 – 1:30pm – 2:45pm

Goals of the workshop:

• Introduce Editing Environments: Non Versioned Editing, Versioned Editing, Move to base Editing
• Define the architecture of Versioned Editing
• Introduce Versioning Management: Reconcile, Post, Conflict Resolution
• Discuss Compress

Major topics covered:

• What is a difference between the three versioning environments?
• What do words like: version, state, state lineage mean?
• What are A and D tables?
• How to post and reconcile versions
• What are the options when resolving editing conflicts?
• What is the purpose of a compress?

Geodatabase Editing Workflows – Advanced
Tom Brown; Robert Rader; Tony Wakim

Room 6C
Wednesday, August 6 – 10:15am – 11:30am
Thursday, August 7 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm

Goals of the workshop:

• Explain Non-Versioned editing
• Address database transactions and data complexity
• High Level Review of Versioning
• Explain Geodatabase Archiving and Replication
• Discuss different database environments including: data models, and performance
• Resources

Major topics covered:

• How do database transaction isolation levels influence non-versioned editing
• In depth discussion of versioning topics including examples on when you would want to use each of the models
• Introducing Geodatabase Archiving and Replication at a high level
• Detailed discussion of the Geodatabase options and how they affect performance and functionality.
• Mixed editing environments and access by third party applications
• Performance and workflow management with Archiving and Replication