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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
Getting started
Fundamentals of GIS data

How maps convey geographic information

Georeferencing and coordinate systems

Elements of geographic information

How GIS represents and organizes geographic information

How ArcGIS users work with geographic information

Users work with many data types and data formats in ArcGIS
Introducing ArcGIS Desktop

What is ArcGIS 9.2

An overview of ArcGIS Desktop

Using ArcGIS Desktop

Mapping and visualization in ArcMap

The geodatabase

Workspace and dataset management with ArcCatalog

Data compilation and editing

Geoprocessing and analysis

ArcGIS Desktop extensions

Tips and tricks within ArcGIS
Tutorials
Toolbars
Getting more help

Using this help system

Getting help within the applications

ArcGIS Desktop Documentation Library

Accessing ESRI Software Training

Using the GIS Dictionary

Contacting Technical Support

Support for users located outside the United States

Contacting ESRI
Map projections and coordinate systems
Mapping and visualization
Editing and data compilation
Geoprocessing
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geodatabases and ArcSDE
An overview of the Geodatabase
Architecture of a geodatabase

Architecture of a geodatabase

Geodatabase storage is based on relational principles

Where does the application logic belong?

The geodatabase is object-relational

Geodatabase storage in relational databases

Geodatabase transaction management

Geodatabase XML
Designing a geodatabase

An overview of geodatabase design

Geodatabase design steps

Using ArcGIS Data Model designs

Documenting your geodatabase design

Modeling feature classes

A note about the use of UML for geodatabase design

Design Tips
Building a geodatabase
Data management workflows, transactions, and versioning
Getting started with editing and maintaining data

An overview of editing and maintaining data

Transactions and geographic data

Data maintenance strategies

Deciding how to register data
Working with non-versioned data
Working with versioned data

Understanding versioning

Version scenarios

Registering and unregistering data as versioned

Creating versions and setting permissions

Displaying versions

An overview of the version editing process

Saving edits to a version

Reconciling a version

Reviewing conflicts

Resolving conflicts interactively

Posting changes

Automating reconcile and post

Compressing the database
Managing Distributed Data

Understanding distributed data

Scenarios using distributed data

Working with geodatabase replication

Replicas and geodatabases

Replication types

Connected and disconnected replication

Preparing data for replication

Replica creation and versioning

Replicating related data

Replicating topology

Replicating geometric networks

Replicating raster data

Replicating terrains, network datasets, and representations

About synchronization

Connected synchronization

Disconnected synchronization

Synchronization and versioning

Synchronizing with filters and related data

Synchronizing topology

Synchronizing geometric networks

Working with schema changes

Geodatabase replication and ArcGIS Server

Geodatabase replication and pre ArcGIS 9.2 geodatabases

Creating replicas

Synchronizing connected replicas

Synchronizing disconnected replicas

Applying schema changes

Resolving synchronization conflicts manually

Managing replicas

Creating replica footprints
Archiving data
Geodatabase data storage and schema
Administering ArcSDE geodatabases
Administering File and Personal geodatabases

An overview of administering file and personal geodatabases

File geodatabases: compressing vs. compacting

Compacting file and personal geodatabases

About compressing file geodatabase data

Upgrading personal geodatabases

File geodatabases and the file system
Working with geodatabases using SQL
Data management with ArcCatalog
Data support in ArcGIS
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Linear referencing
Network analysis
Mobile GIS
Interoperability and standards support
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
Guide to data that comes with ArcGIS
Licensing and desktop administration
ArcGIS Image Server
GIS Servers and services