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I would like to use python to define a large number of custom symbols (several hundred) and save them in my custom style file. Basically I am trying to avoid manually defining and saving a large number of symbols in the Symbol Editor. Is this something that is possible? Thanks
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Hi Vince Thanks for the information, I think registering an existing table with ARCSDE is what I'm looking for. Is this something that can be done with a standard ArcGIS desktop license and ArcSDE for SQL Express, or is an ArcServer license required? With my current setup I can't seem to run ArcSDE commands. Cheers
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Hi Vince I realize that the geodatabase tables are SQL tables, my concern is more with the additional tables\procedures\etc that are part of the geodatabase and how they would interact with existing tables in my database. As an example, in one database I'm working on I use a snowflake schema to store information as well as some moderately complex logic wrapped up in stored procedures and functions that is used to create, update and delete entities. I would like to include spatial analysis within the central fact table, if I just use the native SQL spatial type then it's just a matter of adding a column to the fact table to store the geometries related to each item. I believe that integrating this within a geodatabase would appear to be much more involved since the geodatabase is using a much more complex methodology to manage the spatial data. I agree that storing the data twice and having to keep it synchronized would be a pain, ideally I would like to write to the native SQL spatial column without going through a geodatabase. Cheers
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Hi Brent I appreciate the suggestion but it's not quite what I'm looking for. Basically I'm trying to come up with a way around the read only nature of QueryLayers. I would like to provide editing of spatial features without the overhead of using a geodatabase, so just use the spatial data type in SQL Server. One possible solution I was thinking of was dumping features from a SQL table into a geodatabase for editing then pushing them back into the SQL table when editing was finished. Thanks
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How difficult is it to convert spatial data stored in a Geodatabase to native SQL Server spatial types? I want to do this in an automated fashion, either in .Net or tsql if possible. Thanks
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