ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

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There are two kinds of geodatabases: personal geodatabases and multiuser geodatabases.
Multiuser geodatabases are also known as ArcSDE-based geodatabases. While ArcGIS Engine
is supported on UNIX, these platforms do not support the use of personal geodatabases
(*.mdb). Your personal geodatabases must be converted to an ArcSDE geodatabase or a
supported file-based format, such as shapefiles, coverages, or raster data, before you can use
that data to serve a map on Solaris or Linux.
ArcCatalog allows you to copy data from a personal geodatabase and paste it to an ArcSDE
geodatabase. You can copy entire feature datasets or individual feature classes, raster
catalogs, or individual rasters and tables. For every feature dataset, feature class, raster
catalog, or individual raster or table you copy and paste, the result is an equivalent feature
class, raster catalog, and individual raster or table in the destination geodatabase with all the
features or records from the source data.
This appendix describes the steps involved in this process as well as the procedure to convert
a personal geodatabase to a file-based shapefile, coverage, or individual raster.
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