I'm confused about some ESRI terminology.
If I have ArcGIS 10.1 Server installed and we use Enterprise geodatabases with versioning capabilities but we use direction connections does this have anything to do with ArcSDE or SDE?
I know that ArcSDE isn't even installed on our server, but I see ArcSDE experience being requested quite a bit but I never know if they truly are using ArcSDE or that's just what they are used to calling it.
Can someone clear this up for me?
Best Answer
"ArcSDE" refers to the API, the network communication protocol, the application server, and the tables and stored procedures registered in a geodatabase. If you have an Enterprise Geodatabase in an RDBMS, you are using ArcSDE technology, even if you never start the application server. "Direct Connection" is always a synonym for "ArcSDE Direct Connect connection" which uses the application server DLLs as an additional thread in the client application, and manages streams the same way an application server would, but locally.