Differences in behavior between Geodatabases created in Catalog vs ArcGIS Pro?

Question

I have no example. When I walk my python script through multiple geodatabases, the python code will generally work on older geodatabases created using ArcCatalog and it will throw an error when it gets to geodatabases I created using ArcGIS Pro (which is what I use exclusively now).

1) Has anyone else experienced this?

2) What kinds of back-end differences are there (if any) that may be causing this?

3) Suggestions for fixes I can implement.

Thank you very much. Again, I have no example.

Robert_LeClair · Answer

To add to @RhettZufelt , I found some interesting timelines when GDB behaviors were released:
Dec 1999 / ArcGIS 8.0 - GDB hits the streets
Apr 2001 / ArcGIS 8.1 - Subtypes, domains, and relationship classes
Feb 2003 / ArcGIS 8.3 - Topology rules
May 2005 / ArcGIS 9.1 - Network dataset
Nov 2006 / ArcGIS 9.2 - File GDB, replication, archiving, terrain datasets, cart reps
June 2010 / ArcGIS 10.0 - Attachments and Mosaic datasets
June 2012 / ArcGIS 10.1 - Editor tracking
Jan 2018 / ArcGIS 10.6 - Utility Network and Branch Versioning
Jan 2019 / ArcGIS 10.7 - contingent values and attribute rules

SarahBowman3 · Answer

Hi @KellyJanus1 ,

I don't know if this exactly pertains to your situation, but...

I was thrown into my position when the former GIS admin left abruptly, and I had to pick through his old computer/data/programs and licenses to try to make sense out of what he had been doing. I set up my computer with ArcPro (he had been using an old ArcMap setup) and went about trying make everything work off of it instead of juggling between computers. I ran into a similar situation to yours when I tried to run a script that he had created to quickly import survey data into a database.

The issue was that the script was written with Python 2.7 and ArcPro runs scripts in Python 3. I just had to rewrite the script in Py3 language to make it work.

That might too obvious of a fix but it doesn't hurt to start with the basics.

RhettZufelt · Answer

Do you have attribute rules on any of the data?  If so, the old ArcMap version can throw errors.

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