Adds table

Adds table usually called the "A" table is part of a Versioned Featureclass. This table gets created when a Featureclass in an ArcSDE Geodatabase is registered as Versioned and is dropped when the same Featureclass in unregistered as Versioned. Once a Featureclass is registered as versioned, all of its inserts/updates go to the adds table immater of which Version is being edited. A Featureclass only has one Adds Table.

The Schema of an Adds table is similar to that of a the Featureclass' base/business table. A Featureclass' Adds table can be identified with its Registration_id from the ArcSDE Repository table named "Table_Registry".

Records from the Adds table move into the Base table when the Geodatabase is compressed. However, one needs to understand the Versioned environment for cases when the records do not move into Base table of the Featureclass.