True. I was just wondering if there was a way. 5hours is no big deal as the process runs at night but I thought I would ask to see if there are ways to achieve this.
To answer your questions below:
Are you using ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro? I am using python 3.5 (ArcPro)
Is the data versioned or not? Not versioned
If versioned, how many versions are there in the GDB and have they been reconciled recently? None
Has the GDB been compressed recently?Yes, we recently upgraded our SDE to 10.6 and went through a compress