Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is there a way to create a spatial
database from ArcCatalog that also creates the ArcSDE user,
repository, and service.  Basically, I am trying to do
everything that the ArcSDE Post Installation does, but from
ArcCatalog.  I am using version 10 of ArcCatalog and ArcSDE and
SQL Server 2008 R2.  Thanks, Seth  share|improve this question
add comment  2 Answers  up vote 5 down vote accepted  No. The
closest you're going to get is with personal or workgroup SDE.
Those editions let you create databases from ArcCatalog but you
still need to run the post-install initially to set up a SQL
Server Express instance. If you're using enterprise, you're
stuck with the post install (or the command line tools :)).
share|improve this answer add comment  Footnote: ArcSDE 10
Service Pack 1 (released 11/11/2010) http://downloads2.esri.com/
support/downloads/other_/ArcSDE10sp1-issues.htm fixes lots (if
use other ESRI arcgis 10 software service packs must match as
they share updated .dlls) ie arcgis 10 des