topic Re: Differentiate between DBMS & GIS in New to GIS Questions

Differentiate between DBMS & GIS

PankajWarwadekar — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:56:37 GMT

Can anybody provide answers to this questions.
We can consider Oracle as DBMS and ArcGIS as GIS software for building up an answer

Re: Differentiate between DBMS & GIS

AlexeyTereshenkov — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:31:30 GMT

Hi,

Could you please publish the questions as plain text message in here so everyone could read it without using any 3rd party software?

Re: Differentiate between DBMS & GIS

V_StuartFoote — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:12:14 GMT

Not sure why he wanted to ask it in this forum, but these are contents of Pankaj's .xlsx table...

[TABLE="class: grid"]DBMS GISType of dataAmount of data to analyze and to maintainType of analysis functionNumber of concurrent accessTransaction control mechanism includedAccess mechanism to protect data against non-authorized accessEmbedded mechanism to protect against system failureOccurrences (variety and type of occurrences) of distributed system ArchitecturesEmbedded standards (What type of standards?)Typical value of system within an enterprise (enterprise critical? Nice to have a system?)Type of user interfaces
[/TABLE]

Stuart

Re: Differentiate between DBMS & GIS

AlexeyTereshenkov — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:55:58 GMT

Stuart, thank you. I think he thought that Understanding GIS Workbook is a forum where one can ask questions that help build understanding GIS concepts.

Pankaj, this forum is dedicated to the book released by Esri Press: http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=201&moduleID=0
The questions you asked can be posted in other appropriate forums (for instance, http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/32-Geodatabase-amp-ArcSDE).

However, you can also refer to the Web Help to find relevant information, because it is a good place to get started.

ArcGIS Desktop Help: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html
Geodatabases in Oracle: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/A_quick_tour_of_geodatabases_in_Oracle/002n000000q5000000/
Oracle Documentation: http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage