Help newbie questions.....

BrendaMaloff — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:06:10 GMT

About a million years ago, we had a EDN license and I wrote some code that used the SDE C API, and I haven't really looked at it since. Now I'm being forced to, since our client is having some issues that I need to get resolved. But it seems everything has changed from the last time that I looked at things, surprise, surprise. So what I need to do is to get an SDE database up and running, so that I can actually connect to it and try to get some data out of it. Of course, the machine that I used way back when I no longer have, so it is a brand new install. I have an EDN subscription. I downloaded and installed the ArcGIS Engine. I also installed a ArcSDE for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, which that is the database that I am using. Now I'm kind of at a loss as to what I need to do next. I need to get the license working for the software......way back when I seem to recall that on the EDN website there was a place to get a ecp license file emailed to me. All I seem to see there now is just some authorization codes. What exactly do I do with those codes? How do I get things licensed? Cant seem to find out any information about how to use those codes. Then my second question is how do I build an SDE database. Way back when I seem to remember that the database was created at installation time. It doesn't appear that this happens any longer. So how do I get the actually database created? And once I get these two pieces working, I saw the sde command line that allows me to take data from a shape file and load it into my sde database, so it that all still works then at that point I should be good to go. Just need you to point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Re: Help newbie questions.....

SachinKanaujia — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:09:18 GMT

What version of ArcSDE are you installing because there are differences in the way your create geodatabases with newer versions of ArcSDE post 10.0.

Here is the detailed guide for the ArcSDE Setup for 10.0

General
http://resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/arcsde-installation-guides

SQL Server specific
http://help.arcgis.com/en/geodatabase/10.0/install_guides/arcsde_for_microsoft_sql_server_installation_and_upgrade_guide/index.html#/Introduction/009500000002000000/

and here is the detailed guide for the ArcSDE Setup for 10.1
http://esriaustraliatechblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/installing-arcsde-10-1-and-setting-up-a-geodatabase-in-sql-server/

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