SDE Feature Dataset

4616
15
05-23-2017 05:55 AM
WilsonCalmon
New Contributor III

Hello everybody!!!
I have many SDE Feature Class on my geodatabase but there is no SDE Feature Dataset set so far.

I would like to create a "Topology" on my GDB and set some Topology rules for those layers.

Is possible to set a Topology for Feature Classes with out a Feature Dataset?

Otherwise, is possible to create a Feature Dataset and "move" the Feature Classes to this Feature Data Set? Actually I can´t re-create the Feature Classes. 

ArcGis 9.3

ArcSDE 9.3 for Oracle Spatial 10g

Thank you all for support!

0 Kudos
15 Replies
ChristopherMcClain
Occasional Contributor II

Topolgies were supported in 9.3 so it should work.  ArcInfo is the highest level of desktop.  If you can copy or import the feature class into the feature dataset you are good to go provided the spatial references match.  However, you are walking without a tightrope given that 9.3 has been retired for sometime so you won't be bale to get any official technical support.

0 Kudos
VinceAngelo
Esri Esteemed Contributor

Best practice is to create the FD using the desired spatial reference, then create new FCs within the dataset.  Second best is to use a feature class to create a feature dataset, but you will not be permitted to add an existing FC which does not exactly match the SpatialReference, because that's pretty much all a feature dataset does.

The issue with using 9.3 is that it is so old, no one here is likely to have it available, so you're pretty much on your own for making it work.

- V

JoeBorgione
MVP Emeritus

I don't know that you can drag and drop a feature class into a feature dataset.  Right click on your feature dataset and select import and then follow the dialogue.  Given that your software is going on 4 years outdated, I'll let you decide as to whether or not upgrading is a good idea or not....

That should just about do it....
0 Kudos
JoeBorgione
MVP Emeritus

Good lord....  It's been THAT long?!

By misbehaving I mean the locks they have a tendency to place locks on things; yeah, when they are used a file system management tool , it's just bad practice,  I prefer to use an enterprise geodatabase to store and edit data. Period.  If I need topology, I'll use a map topology for editing.   For feature dataset functionality like network analysis, I'll replicate one way to a standalone FGDB.....

That should just about do it....
0 Kudos
VinceAngelo
Esri Esteemed Contributor

There are two different pages with different retirement date resolution, but they're both in Dec 2013.  

ArcGIS 9.3 was introduced two months after my son was born, and he's a 9 year-old, so, yeah...

- V

0 Kudos
JoeBorgione
MVP Emeritus

I was thinking 10.0; that set a year ago.....

That should just about do it....