I'm suffering from very slow viewing data of and ArcSDE database from an Arcgis engine application, the SDE database is in localhost so there's no network issues. but i still don't know the reasons neither how to solve this problem. i'm working on 64 bit machine with 2 CPU's Xeon 3.4 GHz and 2 Gb of RAM. the database contains 20 feature class, but with the max number of features do not exceed 100 000 in some feature classes, if i wait to view the data i should wait 10 minutes. i tried to compress and rebuild indexes in the database using the above scipt but there's no improvements at all. import arcpy , sys , os arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True db_name = sys.argv[1] db_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "Connection_"+db_name+".sde") arcpy.env.workspace = db_path #disconnect all users from the database. arcpy.DisconnectUser(db_path, "ALL") # Get a list of versions to pass into the ReconcileVersions tool. versionList = arcpy.ListVersions(db_path) # Execute the ReconcileVersions tool. arcpy.ReconcileVersions_management(db_path, "ALL_VERSIONS", "sde.DEFAULT", versionList, "LOCK_ACQUIRED", "NO_ABORT", "BY_OBJECT", "FAVOR_TARGET_VERSION", "POST", "DELETE_VERSION", "c:/reconcilelog.txt") # Run the compress tool. arcpy.Compress_management(db_path) #Allow the database to begin accepting connections again arcpy.AcceptConnections(db_path, True) dataList = arcpy.ListTables() + arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() + arcpy.ListRasters() # Next, for feature datasets get all of the featureclasses # from the list and add them to the master list. for dataset in arcpy.ListDatasets(): dataList += arcpy.ListFeatureClasses(feature_dataset=dataset) ##print dataList # pass in the list of datasets owned by the admin to the rebuild indexes and analyze datasets tools # Note: to use the "SYSTEM" option the user must be an administrator. arcpy.RebuildIndexes_management(db_path, "SYSTEM", dataList, "ALL") arcpy.AnalyzeDatasets_management(db_path, "SYSTEM", dataList, "ANALYZE_BASE", "ANALYZE_DELTA", "ANALYZE_ARCHIVE") i tried to view data from ArcMap, i have founded the same problem. Using the performance monitor i remarked some bottlenecks in CPU and network sides. I'm available for explanations of the problem. Any help please.