See what FME 2018 brings with new database formats, enhanced formats, and a game-changing transformer. By focusing on data harmonization, FME makes your database do the work so you can spend more time fishing.

1. – FME Summer Camp –
Dive in with Databases
Tia McKillop
Mark Stoakes

2. Database Explorer
Agenda
● What’s New in FME 2018
○ New Formats
○ Harmonization
○ Format Enhancements
○ New Transformer
● Demo: Let the database do the work!

3. DATABASE UPDATES

4. New Formats
● Teradata Reader & Writer
● SAP HANA Reader & Writer
● Geodatabase on SAP HANA Reader & Writer
● Esri Geodatabase Mosaic Dataset Writer
Welcome
Campers

5. Geodatabase Mosaic Writer

6. Harmonization
● File Geodatabase
○ Writer Feature Type: fme_db_operation
○ Reader Feature Type: WHERE Clause
○ Added SQL Before/After
● ArcSDE Geodatabase
○ Reader Feature Type: WHERE Clause
● SQL Server Reader
○ Added SQL Before/After
● ODBC / JDBC
○ Added Before/After SQL
FME
Camp

7. Updates to Existing Formats
● SQL Server, DB2
○ XML data type support
● Oracle 12c, MySQL
○ JSON data type support
● GeoPackage
○ Curved geometry support
● Geodatabase ArcSDE
○ Selective Attributes Support

8. ➔ Why use the FeatureJoiner?
➔ It’s FASTER than FeatureMerger
➔ It’s SIMPLER than FeatureMerger
➔ It uses STANDARD language
New Transformer

9. Joining with the FeatureJoiner

10. Mode Venn Diagram Joined UnjoinedLeft UnjoinedRight
Left All Matches and
Unmatched Left
Features
Nothing Unmatched Right
Features
Inner All Matches ONLY Unmatched
Left Features
Unmatched Right
Features
Full Everything Nothing Nothing

11. TRANSFORMER UPDATE
FeatureWriter
Check out the FeatureWriter Doc

12. LET THE DATABASE
DO THE WORK

13. Reducing Data Load Risk: Recovery Strategies
Don’t let your database loads stall…
David Reksten, INSER SA
- Uses staging tables and validates those
prior to loading to production.
Erik Bodewitz, SpatialBiz
- Set FME transaction interval to 1 to
easily trace the problem feature, OR
- Set transaction interval to a large value
to rollback the entire load, OR
- Uses staging tables and validates
those prior to loading to production.
Dave Ellerbeck, Global Informations Systems
- Uses Ignore Failed Features on
Geodatabase writer.
- Uses SQLExecutor to manage
parent/child inserts.
-
Barbara Stephan, Landesbetrieb
Geoinformation und Vermessung
- Loads ~40 tables using staging tables
and validates those prior to using FME to
mirror those into production tables.

14. Let Your Database Do The Work &
Data Load Validation
Add additional data to
database tables. Validate
load, reduce risk.

15. DEMO: LET THE DATABASE DO THE WORK

16. Esri Utility Network Management Extension
Migrate data from ArcGIS to Utility Network
Migration Workspace:
- Schema Mapping
- Build Assemblies (if required)
- Write to Asset Package Staging Geodatabase
Load Data into Utility Network (Esri Data Loader)

17. Resources: More information on FME
& Databases
● Tutorials on the FME Knowledge Center
○ knowledge.safe.com
■ Oracle
■ PostGIS
■ SQL Server
■ Esri Geodatabase
■ Smallworld
○ Let the Database do the Work
fme.ly/dbwork
● Webinars
○ www.safe.com/webinars
● ArcGIS Utility Networks

18. Poll Question:
Would you be interested in more resources on how to
work with:
38% - Oracle | 37% - PostGIS | 58% - SQL Server
74% - Esri Geodatabase | 4% - Smallworld

19. Join our next camp activity on July 25:
Web Data & Reporting Zipline

20. Q&A