Stuck in Johnstown Day 2

We were a bit late to class today coz my colleage had to troubleshoot some problems back in the office via VPN and the connection was slow from here. When we finally got to class sometime after 9 AM, we dived right into the tail end of a lecture and went off to do the first excercises for the day. We learned all about ArcSDE architecture and connections where we actually went through and created 3 types of connections (application server, direct, OLE DB). It was pretty straightforward. After that we monitored connections at the command prompt then dabbled a bit in SQL Enterpise Manager (Management Studio if you are using 2005). The next two chapters covered loading vector data and raster data which is pretty strightforward except for the parts where we had to write a few .bat files to do what we can do in the GUI. You see I’m not good at this type of thing and I ended up making a few mistakes and didn’t get the scripts to run the first time. This was in the challenge section so I didn’t feel too bad but I can see how this can be useful if you are loading more than a few large datasets. The quirkiest part of the excercise though was sitting there and calculating XY shifts and geodatabase centers. There is a calculator script out there for that and you don’t have to do this by hand. I understand the concepts but those long numbers just make my head hurt when I’ve been doing other things with my brain We left off with loading raster data and I’m on section 7 Using footprints in ArcMap. So far things are OK except that I wish we had a few more breaks in class. We’re a bit ahead of schedule and if we keep going at this pace we’ll get home at a reasonable hour on Friday. Albeit a bit brain damaged…

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