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 in SQL Server 2008 from ESRI software; it depends on how up-to-date your Windows ...

For those of you participating in the 9.4 beta program, we’ve started a Beta specific Inside the Geodatabase blog. The new GDB beta blog will serve as a place to post about all of the new functionality and improvements that we’ve been developing for the 9.4 release. We’ll be posting to it regularly about all of the new additions, workflows, ...

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 to troubleshoot, monitor, and investigate ArcSDE geodatabases.The GDBT works with geodatabases ...

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 some key concepts to be aware of before migrating as well as GIS data migration methods. Read ...

Well the conference is over and it's back to Redlands. We've been getting a lot of good feedback about the tech sessions and demo theatres, I'll get the Geodatabase Essentials sessions on here later this week. I hope everyone who attended the conference got a lot out of it and had fun in the process. It certainly is helpful for us to get a feel ...

  There is a new tab on the Geodatabase Resource Center that opens up a Community Page. This page is similar to those found on other resource center pages but is geared towards geodatabase topics of course.   There are four sections of the Community page: Blog – A list of recent posts from this here blog you’re reading Media Gallery ...

  ESRI has a Channel on YouTube called ESRI TV which serves as a good place to find helpful videos and demos. It’s worth checking out and mining for any areas that interest you. Here are some geodatabase related entries:Managing Geodatabase Topology with ArcEditorArcGIS Diagrammer - Demonstration VideoArcGIS User Guide for Water ...

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 document – as our users come to us with questions or problems we’ll be adding to this ...

ESRI’s Training and Education department is now offering several learning pathways. These learning pathways define a set of ESRI training courses which are designed to focus on a particular aspect of GIS. Specific to the geodatabase among these is a Geodatabase Management Learning Pathway. This pathway consists of 5 courses chosen from a select ...

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 both ArcSDE geodatabases implemented on SQL Server Express. The power of these types of ...