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Building Web Applications with ArcGIS

By : Hussein Nasser
Book Image

Building Web Applications with ArcGIS

By: Hussein Nasser

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Configuring enterprise Geodatabase


Unfortunately, editing requires some more configurations to be done, and the current service we have already published in Chapter 1, The Bestaurants Project, wouldn't do the trick. The reason is that the service is using a local database file; however, editing GIS data on the Web requires either an enterprise database running on a database management server such as the SQL server, or Oracle, or an ArcGIS Online feature service. Setting up the enterprise geodatabase server is out of the scope of this book. However, you can grab my book Learning ArcGIS Geodatabase, published by Packt Publishing, and walk through the step-by-step full guide to set up your own enterprise geodatabase with Microsoft SQL Server Express. If you have an existing enterprise geodatabase server, you can use it. I will be using SQL Server Express 2012 SP1.

Connecting to the Geodatabase

First, we need to establish a connection to the enterprise server. For that we will use a username that...