Pairwise Erase vs Erase Tool
i used both of them for the same data set and got different results!
so i tried to understand why, reading the tools description:
The Pairwise Erase tool is similar to the Erase tool in that geometric intersections are computed, but it is different in that intersections are computed on pairs of features rather than all combinations of features. This tool is efficient in situations in which the input or erase feature classes contain large numbers of densely packed features.
do i understand right, that the Erase tool is the more correct since it erases every feature with every feature ("all combinations of features") while pairwise only uses pairs so it misses some features entirely?