Using ArcCatalog

items, such as geodatabases and coverages, always
appear at the top of the Contents list. They are grouped
by type.
8. Click the Thumbnails button and scroll down through the
snapshots. Items that are not geographic data sources,
such as the yellowstone geodatabase, can’t have
thumbnails; their icons appear on a gray background.
4. Click the List button.
5. Click the Details button. The Type column in Details
view will help you learn which icon represents which
type of data. You can find more information about data
types and their icons in Chapter 4, ‘What’s in the
Catalog’.
6. Click the heading of the Type column to sort the items
by type.
7. Click the heading of the Name column to sort the items
by name. When sorted by name, items that contain other
9. Click the Details button.
10. Double-click the yellowstone personal geodatabase in
the Contents tab. It contains a feature dataset called
water and a feature class called roads.
11. Double-click the water feature dataset in the Contents
tab. It contains three feature classes: lakes, rivers, and
streams.
12. Click the states coverage in the Catalog tree to list the
feature classes it contains.
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