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An overview of the geodatabase

  • What is a geodatabase?
  • The architecture of a geodatabase
  • Geodatabases
  • Essential readings about the geodatabase
  • Table basics
  • Feature class basics
  • Raster basics
  • Types of geodatabases
  • Client and geodatabase compatibility
  • Geodatabase upgrades
  • Geodatabase functionality in ArcGIS Desktop Basic

Designing a geodatabase

  • An overview of geodatabase design
  • Geodatabase design steps
  • Using ArcGIS data model designs
  • Documenting your geodatabase design
  • Modeling feature classes
  • A note about the use of UML for geodatabase design
  • Design tips

Creating a geodatabase

  • Geodatabase creation
  • A comparison of geodatabase types
  • Create a personal geodatabase
  • Create a file geodatabase
  • Create a desktop or workgroup geodatabase
  • Create an enterprise geodatabase

Working with geodatabase schema

  • Schema locking
  • About copying the schema of a geodatabase
  • Exporting a geodatabase schema to an XML workspace document
  • Importing a geodatabase schema from an XML workspace document
  • Copying a geodatabase schema using Extract Data Wizard in ArcMap
  • ArcGIS data model templates for geodatabase design

Copying geodatabases

  • Overview of copying geodatabases
  • Copying a geodatabase using the Copy tool
  • Copy a geodatabase using geodatabase XML workspaces
  • Copying a geodatabase using the Extract Data wizard in ArcMap
  • Copying feature classes using Export

Geodatabase migration

  • Migrating to the file geodatabase
  • Migrating to high precision
  • Migrating data from a newer geodatabase release to an older one

Defining the properties of data in a geodatabase

  • An overview and definition of geodatabase data properties
  • Enterprise geodatabase size and name limits
  • Geodatabase table properties
  • Spatial indexes
  • Spatial references in geodatabases
  • Configuration keywords in geodatabases
  • Domains

Adding datasets and other geodatabase elements

  • An overview of adding datasets to the geodatabase
  • Creating new datasets in the Catalog tree
  • Copying feature datasets, classes, and tables to another geodatabase
  • ArcGIS functionality available for tables that are not registered with the geodatabase
  • Register a table or view with the geodatabase
  • Exporting data
  • Loading data
  • Importing data

Data maintenance and transactions

  • An overview of data maintenance and transactions
  • What is a transaction?
  • Transactions and geographic data
  • Data maintenance strategies
  • Deciding how to register data
  • Grant and revoke dataset privileges in databases and enterprise geodatabases
  • Update statistics on a dataset using the Analyze Datasets tool
  • Rebuild dataset indexes using the Rebuild Indexes tool
  • Viewing dataset or version locks

Working with nonversioned data

  • A quick tour of working with nonversioned data
  • Configuring an ArcMap edit session to perform nonversioned edits
  • Concurrency and locking
  • Working with data integrity features
  • Editing nonversioned data with constraints
  • Nonversioned editing with the feature cache

Working with versioned data

  • What is a version?
  • An overview of traditional versioning
  • Versioning vocabulary
  • Version scenarios
  • Registering and unregistering data as versioned
  • Managing geodatabase versions
  • Editing versions
  • Compressing a versioned geodatabase

Managing distributed data

  • Understanding distributed data
  • Scenarios using distributed data
  • Working with geodatabase replication
  • Replicas and geodatabases
  • Replication types
  • Connected and disconnected replication
  • Preparing data for replication
  • Replica creation and versioning
  • Replication and related data
  • Replication and topology
  • Replication and geometric networks
  • Replication and raster data
  • Replication and terrains, network datasets, parcel fabrics, and representations
  • Geodatabase replication and ArcGIS Server
  • Creating replicas
  • Synchronization
  • Applying schema changes
  • Managing replicas

Archiving data

  • Geodatabase archiving
  • Enabling archiving
  • The archive process
  • Working with historical versions
  • Working with historical markers
  • Working with the Geodatabase History Viewer
  • Working directly with the archive class
  • Schema changes and archiving
  • Disabling archiving
  • Archiving scenarios

Geodatabase replication and ArcGIS Server

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ArcGIS Desktop is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026. There are no plans for future releases of ArcGIS Desktop, and it is recommended that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro. See Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information.

Available with Standard or Advanced license.

ArcGIS Server allows you to configure geodata services. A geodata service provides access to a geodatabase remotely through the LAN, WAN, or Internet using ArcGIS Server. The service exposes the ability to query the geodatabase for information, make copies using data extraction, and perform geodatabase replication operations. A geodata service may be added for any type of geodatabase including enterprise geodatabases, personal geodatabases, and file geodatabases.

You can publish a geodata service in ArcCatalog, the Catalog window or ArcGIS Server Manager. You can start with a geodatabase or a map document that has a layer with a geodatabase connection. If you start with a map document, you need to publish a map service and enable the Geodata Access capability. For more information on publishing these services, see the ArcGIS Server help.

Once configured, geodata services provide access to remote geodatabases. The geodatabase replication tools support local geodatabases through geodatabase connections and remote geodatabases through geodata services. For example, you can execute geodatabase replication commands from a geodata service in ArcCatalog. You can also browse to geodata services within the geodatabase replication wizards. The distributed geodatabase geoprocessing tools support geodata services as well.

To access remote geodatabases in ArcMap, you can use a map service with the geodata access capability enabled. When you add the resulting map service to ArcMap, you'll be able to execute commands from the Distributed Geodatabase toolbar. For example, you would need to use this method if you wanted to create a checkout replica from a remote enterprise geodatabase using ArcMap.

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