Creating additional enterprise geodatabases in SQL Server

You can create more enterprise geodatabases in SQL Server using the Create Enterprise Geodatabase geoprocessing tool if your ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services site includes an enterprise geodatabase and you are using an ArcGIS for Server Enterprise license.

Some common reasons you would create additional geodatabases include the following:

Steps:
  1. Make a remote desktop connection to your ArcGIS for Server instance, logging in as the administrator.

    You must open the RDP port (3389) in your security group to do this.

  2. Start ArcMap and open the Catalog window or start ArcCatalog.
  3. Open the Create Enterprise Geodatabase tool.

    You can search for or browse to this tool, which is located in the Geodatabase Administration toolset of the Data Management toolbox.

  4. Choose SQL Server from the DBMS Type drop-down list.
  5. In the Instance text box, type or paste the public DNS of the instance where SQL Server is installed.
  6. In the Database text box, type a name for the database you want to create to contain your geodatabase.
  7. Check Operating System Authentication.
  8. Uncheck Sde Owned Schema.
  9. Browse to the keycodes file on the ArcGIS for Server instance to populate the Authorization File text box.

    When you authorized ArcGIS for Server, a keycodes file was written to Program Files\ESRI\License<release>\sysgen.

  10. Click OK to run the tool.

You now have a new enterprise geodatabase.

If you encounter any errors, extended errors will be written to a log file (GDBCreateGeodatabase<#>.log), which is created in the directory specified for your %TEMP% variable on the computer where the tool is run.

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12/10/2013