topic Deleting Feature Class from Dataset in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/deleting-feature-class-from-dataset/m-p/508282#M28802 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I am running into a peculiar situation and cannot figure out what is causing this error. I have an oracle backed SDE with number of Datasets; each dataset containing number of feature classes. Since I inherited this SDE I am in the process of cleaning and re-organizing all the data layers. However, I am running into an issue when deleting the feature classes within the Datasets.</P><P>Any feature class I delete from the Dataset reappears, not in the original Dataset but in the main SDE Database. Does anyone know why this would be and how would I overcome this?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:09:49 GMT aam 2020-03-09T13:09:49Z Deleting Feature Class from Dataset https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/deleting-feature-class-from-dataset/m-p/508282#M28802 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I am running into a peculiar situation and cannot figure out what is causing this error. I have an oracle backed SDE with number of Datasets; each dataset containing number of feature classes. Since I inherited this SDE I am in the process of cleaning and re-organizing all the data layers. However, I am running into an issue when deleting the feature classes within the Datasets.</P><P>Any feature class I delete from the Dataset reappears, not in the original Dataset but in the main SDE Database. Does anyone know why this would be and how would I overcome this?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:09:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/deleting-feature-class-from-dataset/m-p/508282#M28802 aam 2020-03-09T13:09:49Z Re: Deleting Feature Class from Dataset https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/deleting-feature-class-from-dataset/m-p/508283#M28803 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Can you post a screenshot of 'before and after' so we can see what things look like from a Catalog view?&nbsp; I'm wondering if there is a permissions issue where the records referencing the object class are being purged from the SDE tables but the table itself is not being deleted at the database level.&nbsp; In other words, you may be logically deleting the reference to the object class according to SDE but not physically deleting the table from Oracle.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:26:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/deleting-feature-class-from-dataset/m-p/508283#M28803 WilliamCraft 2020-03-09T17:26:39Z