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Building Geodatabases                                     

2010 Schedule

Purpose of the Course

This course provides an overview of the structure and capabilities of the geodatabase. You learn how to create a geodatabase, migrate existing GIS data to a geodatabase, and edit and maintain data stored in a geodatabase. The course covers come advanced geodatabase topics including how to build a geodatabase topology; maintain data integrity using subtypes, attribute domains and relationship classes; and create a geodatabase schema. In course exercises, you work with the file geodatabase. You learn how to migrate personal geodatabase data to a file geodatabase and create various geodatabase components.

This course is designed for experienced ArcGIS users who want to store data in a geodatabase and take advantage of advanced geodatabase functionality. Data managers will find this course of particular benefit.

Topics Covered

Introduction to the geodatabase

Advantages of the geodatabase; Focusing on the file geodatabase; Overview of elements within the geodatabase; Geodatabase tables in a database management system (DBMS).

Attribute validation rules

Subtypes and domains; Creating subtypes; Editing subtypes in ArcMap; Creating domains; Editing with domains in ArcMap; Coded value versus. range domains; Subtypes and relationship rules.

Relationship classes

Creating relationship classes; Setting relationship class properties; Using relationships in ArcMap; Relationship rules; Validation; Simple versus. composite relationships.

Annotation

Creating, editing, and managing annotation features in the geodatabase.

Geodatabase topology

Topology management in the geodatabase; Building a topology; Setting the properties of a topology; Setting appropriate topological rules; Fixing topological errors; Editing topological data.

Geometric networks

Creating and editing geometric networks; Performing analysis; Setting and using connectivity rules.

Building geodatabase schema

Different ways to define geodatabase schema; Creating tables, feature classes, and feature datasets.

XML data interchange

Understanding XML schemas of the geodatabase; Exporting the contents of a geodatabase to XML; Importing an XML file into a geodatabase to define its schema.

Vector data in the geodatabase

Loading data from shapefiles, CAD files, coverages, and Excel spreadsheets; Using ArcGIS vector data loading tools.

Raster data in the geodatabase

Storing raster datasets, raster catalogs, and raster attributes in the geodatabase.

Prerequisites

Students should have completed ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality or have equivalent knowledge.

Last modified 3/2/2010

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