topic Re: sdemon commands in Arcgis Desktop 10 in Data Management Questions

sdemon commands in Arcgis Desktop 10

AshakaThakore — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:24:59 GMT

What should i install to have sdemon, sdelayer,sdetable etc commands in my machine. I am using arcgis desktop 10...
Should i install the "Arcsde for Microsoft SQL Server 2008" just to have sde - commands???

I am using windows 7 64 bit
thanks a lot

Re: sdemon commands in Arcgis Desktop 10

CarolynDefoore — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:29:37 GMT

You don't need to install anything. All you need are the SDE binaries. You can copy them locally from the machine where you have ArcSDE installed (you will need to configure your environment variables on your local machine after you copy the bin folder). Alternately, you can always just run the commands directly from the location where you have SDE installed.

Re: sdemon commands in Arcgis Desktop 10

VinceAngelo — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:46:27 GMT

While it's true that you don't need a full install of ArcSDE to run ArcSDE commands, I would
strongly encourage you to go through the install (and cancel the post-install), so that your
release is populated in the system registry. This will permit you to apply patches and service
packs to keep your command-line tools in sync with your database.

Going "registry commando" is usually only an advanced technique since, while it lets you run
multiple versions of ArcSDE, it also deprives you of Start Menu access to documentation and
GUI tools for ArcSDE management.

- V