Building Geodatabases

Overview

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 some 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 and learn how to migrate personal geodatabase data to a file geodatabase and create various geodatabase components.

Goals

Those completing this course will be able to:

  • Understand the geodatabase structure.
  • Explain advantages of a file geodatabase.
  • Understand advantages of geodatabase validation rules.
  • Load vector and raster data into a geodatabase.
  • Create and apply attribute domains, subtypes, and relationship classes.
  • Edit data using attribute domains, subtypes, and relationship classes.
  • Create and edit geodatabase annotation.
  • Create geodatabase topology and apply topology rules.
  • Edit topological data.
  • Perform geometric network editing and tracing.

Audience

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. Those who will be working with a multiuser geodatabase may also wish to enroll in Introduction to the Multiuser Geodatabase, which pairs well with this course.

Prerequisites and Recommendations

Students should have completed ArcGIS Desktop 2: Tools and Functionality or Learning ArcGIS Desktop or have equivalent knowledge