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Paper
Implementing a Spatial Data Management Infrastructure in a Marketing Organization
Track: Database Design, Automation, and Management
Author(s): Eric Pimpler

This paper will describe the experience of the Marketing GIS group within SBC Communications in creating a spatial data management infrastructure for a departmental GIS. This paper will discuss the organizational and technical issues related to implementing a geodatabase using ArcSDE and Oracle 8i. Discussion items include organizational needs and objectives, creating large extent spatial data sets, data inventory and organization issues, data migration issues, and the tuning experience for ArcSDE in Oracle 8i. This paper will also discuss the advantages of relational database storage of spatial data and the architecture of the geodatabase and ArcSDE.

Eric Pimpler
SBC Communications
Marketing GIS
8000 IH-10 West - 12Q05
San Antonio , TX 78230
USA
Phone: 210-524-2295
Fax: 210-541-1737
E-mail: ep4265@txmail.sbc.com