To identify the Adds and Deletes tables for a versioned feature class like 'Buildings', the administrator must first find its unique registrationid. The sdetableregistry (or gdbtableregistry) system table is the primary source for this information, containing a record for every table registered with the geodatabase. The registrationid from this table is used to programmatically name the corresponding delta tables (e.g., a and d). By querying sdetableregistry for the 'Buildings' table, the administrator can retrieve the correct ID to reference the specific Adds and Deletes tables and check if they are empty.

A. sdejayers: While sdelayers contains a layerid that corresponds to the registrationid for feature classes, it is a metadata table for spatial properties. The sdetableregistry is the fundamental source for the registration ID for all registered objects, including non-spatial tables.

C. gdbjtems: The gdbitems table stores metadata about items as they appear in the Catalog pane (e.g., names, paths, types). It does not contain the low-level registration information required to identify versioning delta tables.

1. Esri ArcGIS Pro Documentation. "System tables of a geodatabase in Oracle." This document explicitly states, "The TABLEREGISTRY table... contains a record for each business table that is registered with the geodatabase... The registrationid column contains the unique ID for the table registration, and it is used to identify the business table in other system tables." It also clarifies that for the LAYERS table, the layerid "corresponds to the registrationid in the TABLEREGISTRY table," establishing the latter as the primary source.

2. Pennsylvania State University, GEOG 868. "Lesson 4: Versioning." The courseware explains the versioning architecture: "When a feature class... is registered as versioned, two tables, called delta tables, are created. These are the adds (or A) table and the deletes (or D) table... The A and D tables are named using the RegistrationID of the feature class as it is stored in the SDETABLEREGISTRY system table." This directly supports using the table registry to find the delta tables.