Recommended reconcile order

Geodatabase administrators have access to the Reconcile Order subtab on the Geodatabase Administration dialog box. The subtab will only be available if you are signed in as the administrator.

Right-clicking on any version in the list shows a context menu that allows you to reconcile the version, which launches the Reconcile Versions geoprocessing tool, create a new version, delete the selected version, or view the locks on the selected version.

The Reconcile Order subtab

Geodatabases perform best when they are fully compressed. In a fully compressed geodatabase, there are no rows in the delta tables and the state tree is trimmed back to zero. The Reconcile Order subtab shows all versions blocking the default version from achieving a compress which would move the Default version to state 0.

Learn more about the geodatabase compress operation

Learn more about version states

The order of the versions in the list is the recommended order in which they should be reconciled. Depending on your organizations workflow, you can select one or many versions from the list, right-click and choose Reconcile Version. This launches the Reconcile Versions geoprocessing tool.

To achieve a fully compressed geodatabase, do the following:

10/24/2012