Are you a GIS manager who wants and/or needs to understand ESRI versioning? This is one of the most common topics we are asked about in the consulting field and a good one to unpack here in layman’s terms. We created this whiteboard video (and our free Versioning eBook) to help you understand versioning as well as provide you some useful version management tips and tools.
There are many articles out there that define what versioning is but we’re going to attempt to get behind the scenes to look at how versioning works.
In ESRI’s simple definition, versioning "is the mechanism that enables concurrent multiuser geodatabase editing in ArcSDE geodatabases." This is a good place to start. Versioning is one of the true benefits of enterprise GIS because it allows multiple users to be editing the same geographic area and even the same database record at the same point in time. Each user edits the data within their own version in the geodatabase and then ArcSDE provides the tools to merge those edits into the master public version.
Enjoy!
3 ноя 2015
