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What is the best way for GIS users (i.e. consumers of data not power users) to load data into ArcMap from SDE?

  1. A read-only file location that stores layer files that point to the SDE data?

  2. Use an SDE connection in ArcCatalog and bring in featureclasses that way.

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3. Set up a mxd with the SDE connection and Layers added. – Mapperz♦ Jun 29 '12 at 15:36

closed as not a real question by Vidar, iant♦, Get Spatial, Aragon, R.K. Nov 11 '12 at 14:38

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