Our county has been on an Oracle Enterprise Geodatabase (ArcSDE) for over 15 years. When I add a large feature class (100K+ parcels, 200K+ address point locations) to both ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro, it's capable of filling the map with 10s of thousands of features every second. This demonstrates that the database and our network are plenty fast! But if it's that fast, why does it take nearly 10 seconds to list the contents of the database in ArcCatalog and the Catalog pane of ArcGIS Pro?
I realize that this might sound impatient and trivial, but those ten seconds add up. If I work 48 weeks out of the year and list the contents of the database 5 times per day, that's 3.3 hours per year -- almost half a day of work waiting for the contents to populate. I realize that contents of the geodatabase are stored in the "GDB" tables of the database. Then it must do joins to group feature classes inside of feature datasets. Then it must also filter out objects that the current user doesn't have access to. And so on. So it's not simple, but 10 seconds seems excessive. It would be nice to see some effort put into this (or an explanation of why previous efforts have run into walls).
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