SDE Highlights• Now licensed as a part of ArcGIS

server• Recommending SDE to be separate

from RDBMS– Remove overhead from the server– Utilize direct connects over standard

connections

Current SDE

SDE(Gsrvr.exe)

RDBMS(sql server)

StandardConnection

All Processing on the Server

Optimized SDE

ArcGIS

Client

RDBMS(sql server)

StandardConnection

Processing on the Server

GISServer

SDE

DirectConnection

Optional Direct Connect - processing done on client

GeoDatabase Tuning Tips and Tricks

• Bottlenecks– Server Hardware– Network– DBMS– ArcSDE– Geodatabase– ArcGIS client– ArcObjects customization

SQL 2008• Microsoft will include a “Spatial Data Type”

in SQL2008 (1st Qtr. 2008?)

• SQL2008 spatial will support two models: a “Flat Earth” planar data type and a “Round Earth” geodetic data type – The Flat Earth data type (GEOMETRY) will

support the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features for SQL Specification with support for approximately 70 spatial methods/functions

– There will be spatial indexes for both planar and geodetic data types

February 27, 2008• At it's annual Worldwide Partner

Conference yesterday (June 10th), Microsoft announced the release dates for it's next trio of products: – Windows 2008– SQL Server 2008 – Visual Studio 2008

That's 231 days from today