At the heart of any good enterprise GIS system lives a clean, tidy, and performant enterprise geodatabase. The geodatabase is the core of a strong GIS system; without data, you have nothing. Likewise, a poorly installed, configured, or maintained geodatabase leads to disappointing applications for end users. Proper installation, configuration, tuning, maintenance, and administration of the geodatabase is crucial to the health and usability of a GIS.
Before we can cover enterprise geodatabase administration, we first need to discuss what makes an enterprise geodatabase; how we install, create, or enable one; how we connect to it; and how we load data into it. Also, keep in mind that, in no way can we cover all aspects of Enterprise geodatabase administration in one chapter; an entire book could be dedicated just to this topic. Instead, this...
