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ArcSDE (Spatial Database Engine) is a server-software sub-system (by ESRI) that enables the usage of Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) for spatial data.

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How to undo ArcGIS “Move Edits to Base” mistake?

I'm trying to help a client who mistakenly checked the "Move Edits to Base" option when versioning a feature class in ArcGIS. They would now like to fix this mistake. However, they don't want to ...
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Running Regular Queries Through ArcSDE

Working on an .net arcobjects app that's connecting to a Geodatabase (Oracle) through ArcSDE. I make a bunch of edits inside a EditSession but the data I am touching have a bunch of foreign Key ...
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Convert OpenStreetMap schemas to ArcSDE in PostgreSQL database

I am trying to find a way to store OSM Extracts (or possibly the planetfile) in a PostgreSQL database, keep it up to date with diff files and then process the data further with ArcGIS (e.g. Geocoding, ...
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ArcSDE : Cascading Subtypes in ArcGIS 10/SQL Server

I'm currently creating an ArcSDE DB on an SQL Server. It is designed to complete species survey, with information from the field. In order to help themselves, they asked me to implement a particular ...
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Applying schema changes on a esri geodatabase two-way replica set

I have an Esri geodatabase two-way replica set. I need to update the schema on both databases in the replica set. Esri describes doing this using ArcGIS schema tools (compare/export/import replica ...
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How to register a Stored Procedure in ArcSDE?

I just registered a SQL Server view with ArcSDE through sdetable -o register [...]. I wonder, how to register a SQL Server stored procedure with ArcSDE? Is it the same process as the view? EDIT ...
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ARCMAP ERROR 000464: Cannot get exclusive schema lock

I am trying to run the "Near" tool in Arcmap. Both my layers involved are on a SDE database. When I run the tool I get the following error... ERROR 000464: Cannot get exclusive schema lock. ...
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Creating a VB.net Dataset in Visual Studio 2010 from an SDE Geodatabase

I am building an ArcMap Addin that contains several Windows Forms with controls that need to be bound to a database. I am trying to decide whether or not to use a native SQL Server Database or an SDE ...
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Error opening feature class from SDE (which can be opened in another application)

We're using ArcGis 10.1 with ArcSDE 9.3.1 on Oracle 10g. I've got 2 layers that cannot be opened or modified with ArcCatalog or ArcMap (but they show up in the list. Everything worked just fine ...
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How to enable SDE Archiving with python and the SDE api ArcGIS 10.0

I have a script that does some register as versioned and updating privileges. How would I call into the c api for ArcSDE to enable archiving with python? ...
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ArcSDE Database Refactoring Tools?

We are using liquibase as evolutionary DB change management tool in our applications, it works great when we use it in "common" database schemas. But we also work with GIS applications using esri ...
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Cartographic Representations Load Rather Than Feature Symbology

We use ArcSDE to allow multiple users (both in my office and elsewhere) to access feature classes that my office maintains. We also use cartographic representations for many of our feature classes. ...
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ArcSDE - How to edit mosaic dataset

I have a mosaic dataset (Raster) in an SDE database. As expected, when I click start editing, ArcMap says that I have to do "Register as Versioned" before, but I can't have a mosaic dataset in a ...
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SDE Topology dirty areas don't go away

Just looking for an explanation on SDE Topology dirty areas that don't go away. My workflow involves editing a version of SDE data, then once finished I use the Validate Topology in Current Extent ...
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Can I use an Update cursor with a versioned feature class which has attachments in ArcObjects .NET

I have a problem with my code (C# ArcObjects 10.1). We are trying to update and insert 10 - 15 rows at a time into a feature class hosted in ArcSDE 10.1 on SQL Server 2008 R2. We have a feature class ...
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Create ESRI ArcSDE Connection File (.sde) using Python/ArcPy at the ArcView license level?

Is there an alternative way to create ArcSDE connections in ArcGIS 10.0 using Python at the ArcView license level? I need to create 4 separate connection files for a MXD SDE data source re-point tool. ...
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How to compress enterprise geodatabase with stored procedure?

I'm looking for a stored procedure in ArcSDE for SQL Server which performs geodatabase compression to include it in our daily maintenance plan. Is there any such thing in ArcSDE 10.0?
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How to get WKT from SHAPE column in the ArcSDE geodatabase?

I have an ArcSDE geodatabase running on top of SQL Server 2008. A table for a feature layer was added from ArcCatalog. The SHAPE column is a type of int which was automatically converted from ...
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ArcSDE Feature View in a GeoDatabase other than the Feature's Database

here is the problem I have been struggling with: We have our spatial features in an SDE enabled DB (call it DB1) and have a client DB which is SDE enabled as well (meaning geo-DB call it DB2) and ...
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Can a spatial View in ArcSDE be viewed in ArcCatalog?

Can a spatial view in ArcSDE created by "sdetable create view" command be viewed as feature class in ArcCatalog, or is it just another plain table? I have a feature class table and an attribute table ...
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Importing Rasters to ArcSDE 9.3.1 using sderaster

OK, I am trying to import a raster to 11g using the sderaster command. It is a stand alone jpg with a world file associated, and pyramids. Am I right in assuming I cannot import a JPG, I can only ...
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Is there workaround for very slow ArcSDE 10.1 editing

I'm suffering from very slow editing in SDE from an Arcgis engine application, the SDE database is in local so there's no network issues. but i still ignore the reasons neither how to solve this ...
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Quering a ArcSDE featureclass attribute table after joining

I am trying to query a ArcSDE Feature Class after joining using Iqueryfilter I have two SDE feature classes. 1) Subdivisions : which has details of subdivision and districts (parent) 2) ...
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Extract an ArcSDE datasets (rasters/shape files) using python?

I would like to write a python script to extract/export a dataset (rasters/shape files) in ArcSDE. I saw this posts to connect to the server: Define Workspace for SDE Connection in Python But how ...
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How to run SDE view commands in Oracle DB?

I would like to create SDE view to compare two tables in my oracle spatial database. I already prepared the view commands. But I dont know where and how to run this? I unable to run this commands in ...
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Best practice for loading shapefiles into ArcSDE geodatabase using web application

We are developing a web GIS using Flexviewer and we want to allow users to upload a shp file and insert it into a ArcSDE geodatabase. I think there are two steps at least. upload the shp file (zip) ...
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How to drop ArcSDE connection using Python scripting?

I want to be able to control connections to ArcSDE via python. Here is my script so far using ESRI's example. import arcpy from arcpy import env env.workspace = r"SDEConnection" fcList = ...
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Replicate ESRI ArcSDE Geodatabases in Google Earth Enterprise Fusion

Can we setup an automatic replication of an ArcSDE geodatabase into a Google Earth Enterprise Fusion periodically - weekly/monthly? The replication needs to be performed one way - from ArcSDE to ...
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sdequery.exe: When using functions as column names (-C parameter), how do you escape the comma for functions with parameters?

Using sdequery, I'm specifically trying to return sys_context('USERENV', 'SESSIONID'). user and sysdate work fine. Functions with single parameters work fine. But as soon as I use a function with ...
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SQL sub query syntax does not work on versioned tables without base option- Modified

My original question asked why the where clause below, which includes a sub query, would not work on an SDE database but the same query against a file geodatabase would work. I had thought the ...
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Edits geodatabase

I am trying to reconcile and post the edits. Before doing that I want to manage the edits in such way that the edits are queued before reconcile and post. I am doing this using c#.
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Storing Shapes in database

What is more effective? Storing Shapes as shape column (http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/java/index.htm#geodatabases/topology_basics.htm) in database? Or maybe store shapes in seperate tables ...
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ArcSDE geodatabase for non-spatial data

I have a table stored in an SDE geodatabase for all point features with an additional GEOMETRY_ID. A few non-spatial data tables are stored in an ordinary MS SQL Server database. They can be joined by ...
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Loaded shapefile into SDE without spatial proj creates problem

Via a Python script - various shapefiles were loaded into SDE with no spatial reference set. This causes a strange problem - when you view the featureclass in ArcCatalog (geography view) - it shows ...
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ArcObjects .NET 9.3 upgrade to 10 breaks IRasterDataset.Copy(…) code

I have to upgrade an application from ArcObjects 9.3 (C# .NET) to 10. Unfortunately, there seems to be some incompatibility regarding the IRasterDataset.Copy method. The following code worked fine in ...
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Can we do replication and versioning in User schema geodatabases version with sde default version

As both are administrators to their own schemas, is there any possibility to post and reconcile data across schemas?
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T-SQL with SDE and Web Map ArcGIS Server 10 MSSQL 2008

I need to build a system whereby the user of a web map (the standard web map that ArcGIS Server Manager builds) can edit a feature class's attributes. The attribute will be a 'Comments' field. The ...
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Is it possible to create an updateable spatial view?

1- I have encountered a problem relating with sde commands for creating sde_ view and also sde_table . I used appropriate codes but an error massage occured during execution. the related codes: ...
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How I can upload a annotation featureclass to Arcsde by C#?

I can upload the shape files to ArcSDE database successfully,but I fail to upload annotation featureclass.Who can help me? My emal is longgongyue_2005@163.com
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Oracle Feature Class Couldn't Displayed

I got problem on displaying feature class in Oracle, which successfully imported from file geodatabase using Append (Data Management) Tools, my experiment on copying it to Postgre no problem on ...
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Export ArcGIS TilePackage from large RasterDataset

We store a large (>1TB) RasterDataset of our Orthoimagery in an ArcSDE 9.3.1 Dataserver (on SQL Server 2008 SP1). With ArcGIS Server 10.1 we want to export TilePackages of certain areas to use them ...
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Arcpad checkout to an area

I would like to check out data from an SDE database but for performance sake, i prefer to delete all features outside of my survey area. i've tried to copy features in area from sde to a file GDB ...
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How to add a column to table with sdelayer command?

I am working with an oracle11g database and I would like to add a new column to a feature class stored in this database. I would like to use the sdelayer command but can any one of you give me a tip ...
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SDE Connection raise exception

I am supporting a .NET code that is running on ArcGIS Server 10.1, and communicating with ArcSDE Application Server 9.3 There is part of the code that is doing long loop. And when it comes back to ...
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SDE connection error

In my company we have a number of databases in an MS SQL instance. This morning only 1 database i generating following error when I try to do a direct-connect in ArcCatalog: Failed to connect to ...
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Configuring image popups in a Silverlight application

My Silverlight application contains a points layer which contains paths to a folder of geotagged photos. These points were generated using the GeoTagged Photos to Points tool. I chose not to import ...
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Where are representation definitions in the ArcSDE database (MS SQL)

I think ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 has a bug with storing symbol levels in representations. I can't change symbol levels (the drawing order of a layer according to a category). SDE will not save the changes ...
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how to use SQL Server Express (ArcSDE Personal) local geodatabase without elevated privileges

I have SQL Server 2008 Express on my workstation by virtue of having Visual Studio 2010. To ready it for use with ArcGIS, I ran the ArcSDE Personal 'Enabling SQL Server Express to store geodatabases' ...
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Problem with connecting QGIS to ArcSDE

I am working with ArcSDE (9.3.1) data in QGIS(1.7.4) added via a .vrt file. The geometry displays no problem and appears to function normally. The expected field names appear in the attribute table ...
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ARCSDE; creating new geodatabase in database servers in arccatalog

I use arcsde 9.3. I want to access a geodatabase on mobile. when I want to create new geodatabase in the list of database servers in arccatalog the error is "error creating geodatabase no arcsde ...

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