I am building a new service in 10.2.2 and the service needs annotation to be displayed at a variety of scales. In previous versions (10.0) I just created and kept the anno in the map. Is that the recommended / easiest method? Are there advantages to putting the anno layer into my SDE for a one-time fire and forget map service?
Would you like to use the same anno layer in multiple maps/services? Then, it is wise to save it as a geodatabase annotation. You could also define its visibility scale range from the layer properties.
