Where are ArcSDE 10 install binaries? ArcGIS Server 10 media or separate?

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Where are the ArcSDE 10 install binaries (e.g. sde command line tools, ST_GEOMETRY libraries, etc)? Are they hidden somewhere on the ArcGIS Server 10 media? On our ArcGIS Server 10 for .NET media, I see install options for GIS Services, Web Applications, and SDKs. Nothing for SDE. Same goes for our ArcGIS Desktop 10 media (No SDE install options). On the Customer Care site for our customer number, I see only downloads for Desktop and Server. So presumably ArcSDE 10 stuff is hidden somewhere on the Server media.

I realize upgrading a gdb from 9.3.1 to 10 is done from within ArcGIS Desktop (trying to do an upgrade). But those instructions still reference an ArcSDE uninstall and install process. And I still need utilities like sdedbtune unless those have been replaced by something else.

danan · Answer

Oops, forgot to ask, are you trying to install ArcGIS Server Workgroup or Enterprise edition?  If you are installing ArcGIS Server Workgroup, then ArcSDE Workgroup is included on the same disc.  The separate discs I spoke of earlier apply to ArcGIS Server Enterprise.

Thanks again Joshua. ESRI fixed my Customer Care account and I was able to download the ArcGIS Server Enterprise 10 iso file today.

Dana

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JoshuaBixby · Answer

Oops, forgot to ask, are you trying to install ArcGIS Server Workgroup or Enterprise edition?  If you are installing ArcGIS Server Workgroup, then ArcSDE Workgroup is included on the same disc.  The separate discs I spoke of earlier apply to ArcGIS Server Enterprise.

danan · Answer

Although ArcSDE was "integrated" or "incorporated" into ArcGIS Server, that was pretty much just for licensing and marketing purposes.  From a technical perspective, ArcSDE remains a separate product in most ways from the rest of ArcGIS Server.  Before media downloads directly from ESRI, it use to be the ArcGIS Server Media Kits would include 2 DVDs for ArcSDE, one for Windows and one for UNIX/Linux.  What you are looking for is a separate ISO file or DVD for ArcSDE.

Thanks Joshua. I'm not sure why ArcSDE 10 never appeared on the Customer Care portal for us in the software downloads area. Will order physical media.