Latest Contributions by MichaelBarber

This is from 2014.  FIVE (5) years ago.  Has this been done on Collector?  Does this feature exist on any other ESRI mobile apps? ... View more

There is always two sets of data with respect to defining a "whole GIS" system right?  1.  Data specific to ESRI that I as a user would not necessarily want to ever change. Including: Generic data applying to all users. Specific data relating to a particular users settings, the whole ecosystem.  Software specific settings including security and configuration, etc. 2.  Data specific to my "particular data".  It seems like ESRI is expecting the second to data to be in this same database merely separated by this db schema boundary.  Has ESRI matured their model to call or expose an external web service for this second set of data instead of having it in the database?  If so, what would it be called?  I know there could be perceived performance hits on this additional layer--but it is uncoupled at that point which is a very good thing.  Abstraction and uncoupling usually comes at the expense of complication, but the opposite kind of complication, also called spaghetti is much, much worse at least for an enterprise.  I agree that it is really just complicated for a small organization. ... View more

Thanks for your reply George.  I guess my question is more basic than this in terms of putting up a message in the Geodatabase space when I think I need more basic information.  SDE schema/user is just that right- the database owner of a set of tables?  This refers to privileges.  So are you saying that SDE is an ESRI provided schema owner for the "original" data tables and data dictionary for the ESRI portion of the database?  How do you know the customer hasn't changed the underlying tables or data dictionary in your schema?  I don't understand why ESRI has not provided a two database model.  One database ESRI uses and another database that is "data-user specific"? ... View more