Versioning allows multiple users to edit the same data in an ArcSDE Geodatabase
Without applying locks or duplicating data. A version can represent
Engineering Design, a construction job, or any other type of transaction.
Basic concepts of versions are as follows:
What a version is
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- A version represents a snapshot in time of the entire Geodatabase. it
Contains all the datasets in the Geodatabase.
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- A version isolates user's work execution SS multiple edit sessions, allowing
User to edit without locking features in the production version or immediately
Impacting other users.
- A Geodatabase can have has versions.
Below is the version Manager dialog box accessed through
ArcMap or arccatalog. It shows the default version and three other versions:
Quality Assurance version (QA) and project versions, projecta and projectb.
A Geodatabase can have has versions
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- In arccatalog or ArcMAP, you can perform all of the same display, query, and
Editing functions on a version as you can on a nonversioned Geodatabase.
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- Users always access an ArcSDE Geodatabase through a version. When you
Connect to a multiuser Geodatabase in arccatalog or ArcMAP, you specify
Version to which you will connect. By default, you connect to the default
Version.
