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Default configuration keywords specific to Oracle

Default configuration keywords specific to Oracle

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In addition to the default DBTUNE keywords common to all DBMSs for ArcSDE 9 and higher that were listed in the topic DBTUNE configuration keywords, the keywords that are specific to ArcSDE for Oracle and Oracle Spatial are listed below.

The first four default configuration keywords define geometry and raster storage. If you only want to use a different geometry storage type with a few datasets, you can use separate configuration keywords to specify this when the data is created or brought into the database.

As mentioned in the topic The DEFAULTS keyword, if you specify a keyword that only has a few parameters, the rest of the parameters are read from the DEFAULTS configuration keyword. Therefore, if you specify SDELOB when you create a feature class in a geodatabase in Oracle, the software uses the values for GEOMETRY_STORAGE, ATTRIBUTE_BINARY, and RASTER_STORAGE parameters from the SDELOB keyword, then goes to the DEFAULTS keyword for values for all the other parameters, such as B_STORAGE and UNICODE_STRING.

If you want to create a topology, terrain, or network that uses a geometry storage type other than what is stored under the DEFAULTS keyword, you need to create custom keywords that contain the desired geometry storage. For example, if you create a roads feature class in an Oracle database using the SDO_GEOMETRY, when you create a network that involves that roads feature class, you want the network to also use SDO_GEOMETRY. For that, you need to create a set of NETWORK composite keywords that specify SDO_GEOMETRY storage. See Composite configuration keywords for details on creating these custom keywords.

See Also

  • DBTUNE configuration keywords
  • The dbtune file and the DBTUNE table
  • Configuring an Oracle database to support XML columns