Enabling Advanced Functionality in a Geodatabase

When you completed the recipes in Chapter 8, you learned how to create your own geodatabase as well as how to add content such as feature classes and feature datasets. You also learned how to add simple behaviors including domains and subtypes. These simple behaviors improve data quality at a minimum. Subtypes can be further used to apply more advanced behaviors to subgroups of data within the geodatabase.

Geodatabases have the capability to include more advanced behaviors that can allow you to track who creates and edits data, capture GPS attributes beyond just location, apply rules to attribute fields, and more. These capabilities are one of the reasons the geodatabase format has become the standard storage format for the ArcGIS Platform. Other formats such as shapefiles, Google Earth KML files, or AutoCAD DWG files do not support this level of functionality within the data itself. If you would like to learn more about some of these...