topic How to compare the same layer in 2 geodatabases in Geodatabase Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872910#M6332 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone,</P><P></P><P>I have the same layer in 2 different geodatabases and both layers have a different number of records.</P><P></P><P>I am looking for a way to compare both feature classes and find the records that are different between them to siolate them and add them to the one that has less records.</P><P></P><P>How can I do that?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:04:41 GMT JoseSanchez 2017-10-03T21:04:41Z How to compare the same layer in 2 geodatabases https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872910#M6332 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone,</P><P></P><P>I have the same layer in 2 different geodatabases and both layers have a different number of records.</P><P></P><P>I am looking for a way to compare both feature classes and find the records that are different between them to siolate them and add them to the one that has less records.</P><P></P><P>How can I do that?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:04:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872910#M6332 JoseSanchez 2017-10-03T21:04:41Z Re: How to compare the same layer in 2 geodatabases https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872911#M6333 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/analysis-toolbox/erase.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/analysis-toolbox/erase.htm">Erase—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:13:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872911#M6333 JoseSanchez 2017-10-03T21:13:17Z Re: How to compare the same layer in 2 geodatabases https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872912#M6334 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Jose, Data Interoperability extension has a ChangeDetector transformer that will find unchanged, added and deleted features, or alternatively an UpdateDetector transofmer that will find unchanged added, deleted and updated records.&nbsp; UpdateDetector requires a shared primary key.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:20:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872912#M6334 BruceHarold 2017-10-03T21:20:39Z Re: How to compare the same layer in 2 geodatabases https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872913#M6335 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you looked over the <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/an-overview-of-the-data-comparison-toolset.htm">Data Comparison toolset</A>?&nbsp; </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:45:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872913#M6335 JoshuaBixby 2017-10-03T21:45:32Z Re: How to compare the same layer in 2 geodatabases https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872914#M6336 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Also you Can try <A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/working-with-layers/using-select-by-location.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/working-with-layers/using-select-by-location.htm">Using Select By Location—Help | ArcGIS Desktop</A>&nbsp; using method <STRONG>Are identical to </STRONG>, then switch selection to get the different&nbsp; records.</P><P></P><P>Note: make the <STRONG>target layer</STRONG>&nbsp; in selection the layer that have records more than the other</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:23:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/how-to-compare-the-same-layer-in-2-geodatabases/m-p/872914#M6336 AbdullahAnter 2017-10-03T22:23:37Z