Database Replication a Win Win

Today we have a guest entry from Steve Eakins, who is the GIS Manager at ETM, an engineering firm from Jacksonville, Florida. ROK and ETM have collaborated often on some large scale projects. Without further delay, here is Steve discussing a recent collaboration on Geodatabse replication.

Working with ROK we have been able to setup SDE geodatabase replication using the ESRI 9.2 Desktop product since ESRI added that function in their release last year.

Database replication gives us the ability, through a secure VPN connection, to maintain our data on the ROK SDE geodatabase. We can, on an automated regular schedule, synchronize only the changes thereby, minimizing network bandwidth utilization during peak hours while keeping our clients ROK hosted website up to date. Replication for us is enabled one way so that the ROK database is a child of our parent master.

Using replication reduces delays in mailing or oversights in forgetting to send all the changed data. This is a huge time saver and is truly a win-win scenario.

For more information see ESRI's website on database replication using ArcGIS 9.2 at http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?TopicName=Understanding_distributed_data

Then talk to the ROK!

Steven