What’s New in Editing at ArcGIS Desktop 10

I have just gone through materials for ESRI What’s New in Editing at ArcGIS Desktop 10 course. The course is short, but contains plenty of useful information that those users who have just upgraded to ArcGIS 10 will surely be interested in. It covers such topics as new editing workflow, which is based now on [...]

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Change sde layers path

If you have an .mxd document that has a large number of layers and you have to use another sde database as a source of data, which includes the same feature classes and tables (for instance, when moving from a development to a production server), you might need to change source paths for those layers. [...]

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More useful SQL Server commands

When you modify a table in SQL Server (I still use mostly SQL Server 2005) and try to uncheck an Allow Nulls option for a certain field (thus prohibiting having NULL values in this column), the following error may occur: Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘<columnname>’, table ‘<dbname>.dbo.Tmp_<tablename>’; column does not allow nulls. [...]

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ArcGIS Desktop performance

Performance of the ArcMap application is a pretty common issue for numerous users of ArcGIS Desktop software. Obviously, ArcGIS is a very big COM-project and this implies that there can be dozens of different aspects, both at hardware and software level, which may stipulate the performance degradation. Network resources used for sending data back and [...]

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