This chapter was lengthy and full of practical exercises. You have acquired new skills and tools that will allow you to do more on the geodatabase. You added new attributes, worked with domains and subtypes, and even created a relationship class that links multiple datasets together. You were able to create annotation classes that are useful for labeling maps. Finally, you learned how to import and convert other data files into your geodatabase and make them consistent in a single spatial reference so that you have a single geodatabase to manage, which will have all your data. So far, we have been creating datasets without paying attention to efficiency and optimization factors.

In the next chapter, we will discuss best practices for modeling the geodatabase in order to achieve an optimal and consistent design.