Loading data into the geodatabase

Lesson 3

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Learning objectives
• Explain the importance of the data owner account
• Identify settings that help with data loading
• Implement workflows to load and update data in the geodatabase

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Data owner account

Database
administrator
(sys, sa, postgres)

Geodatabase
administrator
(sde)

Data owner
• Manages
privileges
• Manages fields
• Manages indexes Data user
• Registers data as
versioned

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Creating a data owner account

1 2

DB Admin Create user Create GDB Data Owner

objects

RDBMS

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RDBMS considerations

Consideration Optimization
Space Ensure that there is enough space in the
database for the new datasets.
Memory Ensure that there is enough RAM available
for the database to process the data-
loading operation.
Connections Time large loads for when there will be
minimal connections to the database.
Logging Disable transaction logging to accelerate
the data-loading operation.

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Geoprocessing environment settings

Setting Description
Current Workspace The workspace from which inputs are
taken and outputs are placed when
tools run
Output Coordinate The coordinate system to which the
System output will be reprojected
Geographic The geographic transformation that is
Transformations applied if the output is reprojected
and requires a different geographic
coordinate system
Output CONFIG The keyword used when creating a
Keyword dataset in a geodatabase used to
specify storage parameters

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Choosing a data-loading tool
Conversion Tools Simple Data Append
Loader Tool

Description Convert datasets Loads more data Loads more

between formats into an existing data into an
using import and dataset using the existing dataset
export options load option in the using a GP tool
Catalog pane
Best use case

Limitations

Automation?

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Updating datasets

Truncate Load New

Table Data

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Automation

Individual tool executions

Batch mode tool execution

Model or script execution

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 Exercise

• Load data into the geodatabase

• Create a data owner account

• Load new datasets into the geodatabase
• Update datasets using a model

Maintenance
Create Connect Load Data

Privileges Performance Management

Setup

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Lesson review
• Why might you use the Append tool instead of the Simple Data Loader?

• Why should the data owner account be a headless user?

• Why is the Truncate Table tool the fastest way to empty an existing feature
class?

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