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SNaC-ing on Geodatabases

If you want to use Microsoft's geometry or geography spatial types with ArcGIS 9.3.1, you should install the SQL Server 2008 Native Client on your ArcGIS client computers. Not everyone will run into a problem when querying the geometry and geography types
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Geodatabase Toolset for ArcCatalog - Free Download

The Geodatabase Toolset (GDBT) for ArcCatalog is now available for 9.3 and 9.3.1. Download the toolset for free off of the ESRI products page. The GDBT is an unsupported extension to ArcGIS Desktop which provides a collection of tools that you can use
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Migrating from Single-user Geodatabases to Multiuser Geodatabases - Podcast available!

A new instructional series podcast is available called Migrating from Single-user Geodatabases to Multiuser Geodatabases. The podcast provides reasons to migrate from MS Access personal or file geodatabases to multiuser geodatabases. It also highlights

Implementing and managing ArcSDE geodatabases on SQL Server Express - New Podcast Series

There is a series of 3 podcasts by Olena Smith worth checking out on the ESRI Instructional Series Podcasts site dealing with implementing and maintaining desktop and workgroup geodatabases. Desktop (aka personal ArcSDE geodatabase) and workgroup are

ArcGIS Server 9.3 Enterprise to support new 64-bit platforms

ArcSDE 9.3 64-bit support has been announced on the ESRI support page . Here are the details: ESRI is pleased to announce the availability of ArcSDE 9.3 with new native 64-bit support for Oracle® 10g & 11g, and Microsoft® SQL Server® on the following

Geodatabase replication and compress

There is new documentation available which talks about some best practices when using the compress command while also employing geodatabase replication. Compress is a process run periodically by an ArcSDE administrator to reduce the size of the geodatabase

Why should I be making direct connections to an ArcSDE geodatabase?

As I was at the UC this year talking with geodatabase users, it became clear to me that there are still a large number of geodatabase users out there who are connecting to an ArcSDE geodatabase through an application server connection. While both connection

Geodatabase Essentials Presentations

Following up on our UC presentations post , Brent and I are posting the tech workshop presentations we gave (with other members of the geodatabase team) down in San Diego at this year's user conference. You can check out the presentations in PDF format

Should I load my raster data into a geodatabase?

I noticed there were a lot of raster related questions at the user conference this year. People mainly wanted to know the advantages of loading raster data into a geodatabase, and generally how to manage their raster data. So I talked to Simon Woo on
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Direct connections to ArcSDE geodatabases

This post was written by Kim Peter, a product engineer on the geodatabase team, and is a follow up to her post on Connections to 9.3 Geodatabases There are two types of connections you can make to ArcSDE geodatabases: direct connections or connections
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9.3 Webhelp now publically available

The 9.3 Web help is now publically available since the login requirement was lifted yesterday. The web help is a great resource for up to date information. Even after the product is released the web help gets updated weekly with content and corrections.
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Road Ahead - PostgreSQL database support at ArcGIS 9.3

The following post was written by Kasia Tuszynska, a product engineer on geodatabase team specializing in PostgreSQL and the geodatabase. The release of ArcGIS 9.3 will see an addition to the list of databases supported by ArcSDE. PostgreSQL 8.3.0 is

Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

Ever connect to a version of a Geodatabase and ask "How is this Version different" ? At ArcGIS 9.3 we added the Version Changes Viewer to the Versioning Toolbar to answer this very question. The Version Changes Viewer provides the capability to view the

Geodatabase Essentials – Enterprise Geodatabases

Derek Law has written an article titled Enterprise Geodatabase 101 which was recently posted on ArcUser Online. The article provides a general overview of the enterprise geodatabase looking at key features, architecture, and implementation. It is geared

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
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