2. SDE Highlights Now licensed as a part of ArcGIS server Recommending SDE to be separate from RDBMS –Remove overhead from the server –Utilize direct connects over standard connections

3. Current SDE SDE (Gsrvr.exe) RDBMS (sql server) Standard Connection All Processing on the Server

4. Optimized SDE ArcGI S Client RDBMS (sql server) Standard Connection Processing on the Server GIS Server SDE Direct Connection Optional Direct Connect - processing done on client

5. GeoDatabase Tuning Tips and Tricks Bottlenecks –Server Hardware –Network –DBMS –ArcSDE –Geodatabase –ArcGIS client –ArcObjects customization

6. SQL 2008 Microsoft will include a “Spatial Data Type” in SQL2008 (1 st Qtr. 2008?) SQL2008 spatial will support two models: a “Flat Earth” planar data type and a “Round Earth” geodetic data type –The Flat Earth data type (GEOMETRY) will support the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features for SQL Specification with support for approximately 70 spatial methods/functions –There will be spatial indexes for both planar and geodetic data types

7. February 27, 2008 At it's annual Worldwide Partner Conference yesterday (June 10 th ), Microsoft announced the release dates for it's next trio of products: –Windows 2008 –SQL Server 2008 –Visual Studio 2008  That's 231 days from today