Hello all,
Part of my organisation's gis data is stored in an SQL Server Geodatabase, within a single dataset that contains dozens of simple feature classes.
Twice a year we receive an update package that contains the latest version of those feature classes. I used to overwrite the existing data with the new package while keeping the old data in a File Geodatabase.
I want to be able keep the data in our SQL Server Geodatabase and to able to see how the data looked like at a certain point in the past. I thought about using Geodatabase archiving but I'm not sure how to insert the new update package. Should I delete the rows of the feature classes and then append the new data? Should I use "Load data"? Is there some other way?
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Technical info:
1. SQL Server 2012.
2. ArcGIS 10.2.1.
3. The new data doesn't change schema / feature class structure.
4. Most of the data doesn't change at all.
5. The new data contains all sorts of changes: added features, deleted features, feature-shape changes, attribute changes and so on.