How does SQL Server Spatial update the ArcSDE database?
With SQL Server Spatial, you create and update features through SQL statements issued against the feature class table. These SQL statements can be issued to your ArcSDE database (in this example, it is called City) through SQL Server Management Studio.
Can you render spatial data in ArcGIS 10?
If you don’t actually have a database server or ArcSDE geodatabase, you can connect to a SQL Server database through the OLE DB connection , but, as Demin mentioned, you won’t be able to render spatial data in ArcMap; you will only see the tables and can view the attributes stored in the rows of the tables. 04-27-2012 10:32 PM
What kind of data is stored in ArcSDE?
By default, ArcSDE databases in SQL Server use the ArcSDE compressed binary type for feature geometry storage within the SHAPE field. To use the Microsoft geometry and geography data types instead for feature geometry storage, we need to specify them when creating our feature class.
How can I bypass the ESRI ArcSDE stack?
By utilizing the SQL Server geometry and geography data types, SQL stored procedures, and triggers, we can essentially bypass the Esri ArcSDE stack and push attribute and spatial updates directly to nonversioned feature class tables.
What are the benefits of editing ArcSDE in SQL?
One of the benefits of editing an enterprise ArcSDE feature class through SQL is that the editing can be performed while the feature class is being consumed by multiple clients such as ArcMap or ArcGIS for Server map services.
Are there any third party applications for updating ArcSDE?
Third-party applications, such as Informatica and Safe Software’s FME, can do this. Both products work very nicely (I’ve used them both) but can be too costly for many organizations. ArcObjects can also be used, but not all organizations have access to a developer capable of creating an application for updating ArcSDE.
How are system tables used in a geodatabase?
When you connect to an enterprise geodatabase from an ArcGIS client or through an ArcGIS for Server web service, you interact with the datasets that you or other databases users have added to the geodatabase. To track that data and to implement geodatabase behavior, enterprise geodatabases use system tables.
How to connect to SQL Server from ArcGIS for desktop?
To use the data stored in SQL Server in services published to ArcGIS Server, you must also register the database with ArcGIS Server. To connect to a database or geodatabase in SQL Server from ArcGIS for Desktop, install the SQL Server native client on the ArcGIS for Desktop computer and create a connection file in the Catalog tree.