The ESRI ArcGIS Geodatabase Workbook is designed to get you started with the advanced edtiting tools in ArcMap and feature behavior in geodatabases that allow you to create and maintain high-quality geographic data.

This workbook is divided into three parts: a quick-start tutorial, a section on editing, and a section on building a geodatabase. The quick-start tutorial provides a brief introduction to editing geodatabases and how feature behavior makes editing easier. The second part of the book provides exercies to help familiarize you with the feature creation and editing tools in ArcGIS. The third part provides exercises on building a geodatabase that will show how to add the types of behavior illustrated in the quick-start tutorial to your own geodatabase.

Software Requirements: An ArcEditor or ArcInfo licensed seat of ArcMap is required to do the quick-start exercise. An ArcView license can be used to work through most of the editing exercises in the second part of the book. An ArcEditor or ArcInfo licensed seat is required to complete the geodatabase topology editing exercise and an ArcEditor or ArcInfo licensed seat of ArcCatalog is required to complete the geodatabase building exercises in the third part of the book.