https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/keep-sde-connections/idi-p/935726 <P>I know that ESRI wants to migrate users from using SDE connections to using direct connectionss, but I think that SDE connections &nbsp;should remain. &nbsp;When we tested direct connections we did not see any improvement in performance vs a SDE connection. &nbsp;Many of our users do not have powerful computers I can only see the performance of Arc GIS on their machines being worse. &nbsp;</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E000000056Q0 --> Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:43:31 GMT DavidDenham 2022-09-09T18:43:31Z https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/keep-sde-connections/idi-p/935726 <P>I know that ESRI wants to migrate users from using SDE connections to using direct connectionss, but I think that SDE connections &nbsp;should remain. &nbsp;When we tested direct connections we did not see any improvement in performance vs a SDE connection. &nbsp;Many of our users do not have powerful computers I can only see the performance of Arc GIS on their machines being worse. &nbsp;</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E000000056Q0 --> Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:43:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/keep-sde-connections/idi-p/935726 DavidDenham 2022-09-09T18:43:31Z