Like others in this thread, we have been having some issues updating our SDE feature classes when they are used by ArcGIS Server Map Service. I just tried adding the schemalockenabled tag set to false on a map service on ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 SP1 and was not able to update the feature class as it returned a lock on the feature class. We have been using the 'sledge hammer' approach of stopping all ArcGIS Map Services while loading data, but it would be nice to not have to stop these services. I am wrong in believing that this functionality was added in SP1? We also break connections to our ArcSDE databases using SDEMON -o kill, but this does not work against the ArcGIS Map Services so we have to stop them. I am curious as to how others are dealing with these locking issues so let me know if anyone in this thread has made some progress in dealing with this. Thanks, Mele Did you restart the SOM on the server after you updated the cfg files? If you don't, it won't recognise the addition of the schemalockingenabled tag. Tamara
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