topic Re: Using arcoy to connect to a remote SDE instance... how to? in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85261#M6723 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>There is a </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0017000000pt000000">geoprocessing tool to create SDE connection files</A><SPAN> that you could use.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:42:04 GMT JasonScheirer 2014-06-16T19:42:04Z Using arcoy to connect to a remote SDE instance... how to? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85260#M6722 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>We are using Python v2.6 and have a situation where we need to connect to a remote SDE instance to look at some data.&nbsp; All of the examples that I have found online are using a local copy of a .sde file that was generated from a connection created in ArcCatalog.&nbsp; We don't have that capability, meaning that we won't have such an sde file to look at to make the connection.&nbsp; Is there another way to create some object where we pass in all of the connection information and then go from there?&nbsp; Or is the only way to use Python to connect to an SDE instance is to have a local .sde file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks - Peter</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:36:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85260#M6722 PeterLen 2014-06-16T19:36:55Z Re: Using arcoy to connect to a remote SDE instance... how to? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85261#M6723 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>There is a </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0017000000pt000000">geoprocessing tool to create SDE connection files</A><SPAN> that you could use.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:42:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85261#M6723 JasonScheirer 2014-06-16T19:42:04Z Re: Using arcoy to connect to a remote SDE instance... how to? https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85262#M6724 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Excellent.&nbsp; Looks the ticket for me.&nbsp; Thanks for your very quick response.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:44:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/using-arcoy-to-connect-to-a-remote-sde-instance/m-p/85262#M6724 PeterLen 2014-06-16T19:44:47Z