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Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:05 AM

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
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:42 PM

Raster Clipping – Part B - Using an irregular shape to clip a raster dataset

This is a follow up to last week’s post . Last week we talked about clipping raster datasets based on a single polygon or graphic. This week we will look at clipping a raster dataset based on selected features within a feature class. Sometimes you will
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Friday, March 27, 2009 1:27 PM

Geodatabase Presentations from the 2009 Dev Summit

This week ESRI hosted the annual Developer Summit down in Palm Springs. The geodatabase team was there to answer user’s questions, announce a few of the 9.4 projects that are in the works, and give several technical sessions. I’ve gathered the slides
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Friday, March 20, 2009 3:53 PM

New Geodatabase SDK Article: “Common Geodatabase API Programming Mistakes”

We’ve added a new article to the Geodatabase SDK entitled “Common Geodatabase API Programming Mistakes”. It’s a list of mistakes we’ve seen a lot of users make and that will cause either unwanted behavior or a performance hit. This is going to be a living
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Friday, January 30, 2009 11:59 AM

Application Developers Tuning Tip: Keeping Datasets Open

Opening a dataset such as a table or a feature class from a geodatabase can be an expensive operation. With this in mind, application developers should try to minimize the number of times they open datasets by following these patterns: Keep datasets from
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:36 PM

Using the ComReleaser to manage the lifetime of cursors in .NET

Geodatabase cursors should always be explicitly destroyed in a runtime environment that uses garbage collection. The rule of thumb is to always release a COM object as soon as the application is done using the reference. This is especially important with
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:15 AM

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
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:15 PM

Migrating your existing data into the Geodatabase

While I was at the user conference earlier this year I was getting a lot of questions about migrating to the geodatabase from other data formats. I talked it over with Derek Law and he thought he’d make a podcast about it (we’ll link to that podcast when
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Monday, October 13, 2008 4:05 PM

New help topics provided on geodatabase replication

More information on geodatabase replication has recently been added to the help system and to KB articles. This should help address some of the more commonly asked questions. The following describes the new information and where to find it: Replicating
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:04 AM

Working with the Connect and Disconnect commands when editing a Geometric Network

The following post was contributed by Craig Gillgrass a product engineer on the geodatabase team who spends the lion’s share of his time working with geometric networks. The topic of when to use the Connect and Disconnect commands when editing geometric
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Friday, September 12, 2008 11:51 AM

ArcGIS Image Server vs ArcSDE - Comparison of managed raster datasets

Given the response to our last raster post and the interest in image server, I talked with the Raster team to see if we could do a follow up post which compared storing rasters in a geodatabase to using image server. Melanie Harlow, a product engineer
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Friday, September 05, 2008 4:35 PM

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
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:57 PM

Road Ahead - New workflow for mosaicking raster datasets

The following post was written by Simon Woo, a product engineer on the geodatabase team specializing in Raster support in the geodatabase. Previous versions of ArcGIS have provided various mosaicking workflows. We’ve tried to make the mosaicking experience
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:13 PM

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
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Friday, April 11, 2008 1:40 PM

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
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