We are running ArcGIS 9.3.1. We perform an ArcSDE compress on a 3-4 week basis.
We satisfy all the conditions to achieve a Full Compress.
We have encountered corrupted (versioned) feature classes as a result of a full compress on a
number of occasions. The Business, F and S tables become out of sync, and hence the fc cannot
be manipulated, viewed, deleted, etc. I have managed to reconstruct this relationship using
DBMS tools, but this kind of practice is not sustainable and is big waste of time.
A full compress was meant to be a good thing. The catch 22 for us is our organisation edits
heavily in arcSDE with a number of editors and if we put off a 'full' compress for too long the
performance of the database slows terribily. (ie hundreds of thousands of records in the delta
tables, I understand is bad practice). It seems the pruning done behind the scenes is not going
according to plan! Has anyone encountered the same issue after a full compress
is achieved? We are close to upgrading to ArcGIS 10.
