Hear What You've Been Missing—Instructional Series Podcasts Exceed 10,000 Downloads Per Month

With more than 25 to choose from, Instructional Series podcasts are the newest way to receive free Esri software training on demand. The podcasts provide short, focused training that fits comfortably into your schedule and can easily be downloaded to a computer or MP3 player. New podcasts are published often on a variety of topics to help you get up to speed and become a more successful GIS software user. Join the many other podcast listeners and subscribe to the podcast feed at www.esri.com/podcasts to be notified when new content is available. Recent podcasts include

An Introduction to the Esri Instructional Series Podcasts—Nick Frunzi, director of Esri Educational Services, provides an overview of the Instructional Series podcasts and how you can benefit from this type of training.

Editing in ArcGIS: General Tips and Tricks—Listen to techniques that will help you become more efficient while editing spatial features in ArcGIS.

Editing in ArcGIS: Sketch Tools and Tasks—Explore procedures that will help you become more productive while sketching new features or using sketch tools to edit existing features.

Editing in ArcGIS: Working with Multipart Features—Find out about procedures that will help you more efficiently edit multipart features.

Geodatabase Archiving: Working with Archived Data—Learn about the new tools that ArcGIS 9.2 provides for working with archived data.

Performance Tips and Tricks: ArcGIS Desktop—Discover strategies that will help you improve display and draw performance while working in ArcMap and ArcCatalog.

New Instructor-Led Training Courses

ArcGIS Server Enterprise Configuration and Tuning for SQL Server—This course prepares SQL Server database administrators to implement an enterprise geodatabase by teaching how to set up an individual SDE technology server. Students become familiar with the scalable geodatabase architecture and learn how to configure SQL Server to support, install, and configure an enterprise geodatabase as well as identify and troubleshoot connection types and issues.

ArcGIS Server Enterprise Configuration and Tuning for Oracle—This course prepares Oracle database administrators to implement an enterprise geodatabase by teaching how to set up an individual SDE technology server. Students become familiar with the scalable geodatabase architecture and learn how to configure Oracle to support, install, and configure an enterprise geodatabase as well as identify and troubleshoot connection types and issues.

Building Geodatabases—This course teaches how to create a geodatabase, migrate existing GIS data to a geodatabase, and edit and maintain data stored in a geodatabase. It also covers advanced geodatabase topics, such as how to build geodatabase topology and create a geodatabase schema.

Data Management in the Multiuser Geodatabase—This course prepares GIS and database administrators to implement a scalable geodatabase (workgroup and enterprise geodatabase) by teaching how to load and manage spatial data. Students learn the basic architecture of a scalable geodatabase and are introduced to spatial data connection types.

Introduction to ArcGIS Server—This course introduces ArcGIS Server and teaches how to install, configure, and use the product as administrators and consumers of GIS services. Students learn how to publish maps, globes, and geoprocessing models that are optimized for performance.

Managing Editing Workflows in a Multiuser Geodatabase—This course provides an insider's look at how to manage editing workflows in a scalable geodatabase (workgroup and enterprise geodatabases). Students learn how to use the different editing environments and how to integrate these environments into their business workflow.

New Virtual Campus Seminars and Courses

Learning ArcGIS Desktop—The first learning module is free for this course, which introduces fundamental concepts of GIS and the major functionality contained within ArcGIS Desktop software.

Migrating from ArcView 3.x to ArcGIS Desktop—This no-cost course introduces ArcView 3.x users to the features and architecture of ArcGIS Desktop software. Students learn how ArcGIS terminology and features compare with ArcView 3.x and work with ArcCatalog, ArcMap, and ArcToolbox to see how these ArcGIS applications work together to provide a complete GIS software solution.

What's New in the Geodatabase at ArcGIS 9.2—This no-cost seminar introduces the new geodatabase functionality by demonstrating how to create personal and workgroup geodatabases, use the new archiving and replication tools, and perform nonversioned editing.

Introduction to Cartographic Representations in ArcGIS 9.2—This no-cost seminar introduces cartographic representations and discusses how they are stored in the geodatabase, used in ArcMap to create maps, and managed using new geoprocessing tools.

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