A view I just created is not editable

BerendVeldkamp — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:51:48 GMT

I created a view in a (SQL Server) geodatabase, registered it with the geodatabase, and am now trying to set field aliases, but AlterField fails on line 7 with the message ERROR 000499: table is not editable

The relevant code looks like this:

if arcpy.Exists(VIEW_NAME): arcpy.management.Delete(VIEW_NAME) arcpy.management.CreateDatabaseView(settings.DATABASE, VIEW_NAME, sql) arcpy.management.RegisterWithGeodatabase(VIEW_NAME, "OBJECTID", "SHAPE", "POLYLINE", arcpy.SpatialReference(28992)) arcpy.AlterAliasName(VIEW_NAME, "Readable name") arcpy.management.AlterField(VIEW_NAME, "id", "id", "Nr.")

If I comment out line 1‒6, and re-run the script, it works without problems, so it looks as if the script creates a lock that prevents itself from continuing.

I am using ArcGIS Pro 3.5

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A view I just created is not editable