Technical Workshop

Geodatabase Essentials Part 1—An Introduction to the Geodatabase

—Charmel Menzel and Shannon Brown, Esri

Do you want to better understand the ArcGIS geodatabase? If so, join us during the first of a two part series on geodatabase essentials. Part 1 will discuss the object-oriented nature of the geographic data model, which takes advantage of the storage capability of modern RDBMS technologies. Key elements and behaviors of the geodatabase include object classes, feature classes, subtypes, relationship classes, geometric networks, and topologies. Additional topics that will be discussed include geodatabase design and the editing process, touching on the use of the long transaction model in a versioned environment.

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