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ArcSDE Geodatabase Creation Guide

An ArcSDE geodatabase stores spatial data in a database management system. To create an ArcSDE geodatabase, you first connect to a database server and then create the geodatabase from that connection, naming it and specifying its storage size. Alternatively, you can copy an existing geodatabase template by importing its schema, which defines the datasets and structures without the actual data. This creates empty datasets that can then be populated with data.

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ArcSDE Geodatabase Creation Guide

An ArcSDE geodatabase stores spatial data in a database management system. To create an ArcSDE geodatabase, you first connect to a database server and then create the geodatabase from that connection, naming it and specifying its storage size. Alternatively, you can copy an existing geodatabase template by importing its schema, which defines the datasets and structures without the actual data. This creates empty datasets that can then be populated with data.

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2 Geographic Data Management

An ArcSDE geodatabase stores datasets in a DBMS. To create an ArcSDE geodatabase you rst add a Database Server
connection (for Personal and Workgroup ArcSDE) or a Spatial Database connection (for Enterprise ArcSDE). See

Finding and connecting to data earlier in this chapter. You can then create the geodatabase from this connection.

To create an ArcSDE geodatabase, right-click the database connection and click


New Geodatabase. Youll be prompted to name the geodatabase, for a location to
store it (it will still appear under the server connection in the Catalog tree), and for
a maximum storage size.

Creating a geodatabase by copying a template

A quick way to build a geodatabase is to use the design of an existing geodatabase that meets the needs of your
application. Other ArcGIS users in your region or your industry may have already built a geodatabase structure you can
use or modify. Ask them to export their schema to a le and send it to you. ESRI also provides a number of data model
templates at [Link] You create an empty geodatabase, then import the schema le.

The rst step in importing a

geodatabase is the same as


creating a geodatabase from
scratchright-click a folder,
click New, and click either File
Geodatabase or Personal
Geodatabase.

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Using ArcGIS Desktop


Select Schema
Only, and type the
name of the XML
le (or browse

to locate it). This


same wizard is
used to load an
entire exported
geodatabase,
including the data.

After renaming the new geodatabase, right-click it, click Import, and
click XML Workspace Document to open the wizard.

The wizard shows


you all the empty
geodatabase
components that
will be created.
Select and type
over the Target
Name for a
component to
rename it (if
necessary), then
click Finish.

The result is a new schema with no data but with all the feature datasets, feature classes, tables, topologies,
relationships, geometric networks, domains, subtypes, and eld properties from the source geodatabase. You can then

review the schema and modify it to suit your needs, deleting some items and adding or changing others.

When you import the schema, the various datasets are dened and created as empty containers. If you preview the geography for a feature class,

for example, youll see that the preview panel is blankthere are no features to preview. If you preview the attribute table for the feature class,
youll see that the columns have been created but there are no records in the table.
Once your schema is ready, import the existing data into the dened geodatabase datasets.

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