Combine Geodatabases

BrynnaZellner

Hi!

There are two people with a copy of the same geodatabase. We are all on different computers but using the same information. The geodatabases are not connected, but I'm wondering how we can connect the geodatabases. So I edit some things on my geodatabase and my coworker edits things on his geodatabase. But we want the information we edited to be in one big geodatabase (along with the unedited information). We do not have the Enterprise license to create a multi-user geodatabase at this point (company limitations). Anyway, my coworker sent me his geodatabase. So now I have two geodatabases. How do I combine his with mine? Is there a way to make his data in his geodatabase replace the unedited data in my geodatabase (I do not want duplicate data, only the edited data and the data that has not been edited yet). 

Robert LeClair

I guess one workflow is to create a new file production geodatabase on your shared network drive, copy/paste all the data from the other 2 geodatabases into the new file geodatabase, then run the feature compare on the same feature classes to see what's the same and what's different.  Based upon the results, do some creative selections followed by an append into a new feature class.  Now if you had an Enterprise geodatabase setup, then geodatabase replication would be MUCH easier to handle.