Latest Contributions by RussellBrennan

Hi dfuhriman,      The issue you are describing is how the software was designed to function. While Vince and Derek are correct that there were structural changes in the geodatabase made after 9.4 Beta, the main reason why geodatabase upgrades cannot go from 9.4 Beta to 10.0 Final is to ensure that any �??known issues�?? (e.g. inconsistent data due to bugs) from beta were not able to make it into a 10.0 Final production environment.      The workaround for this issue will be to use a 10 Pre-Release client (ArcGIS Desktop, Engine or Server) to upgrade your geodatabases from 9.4 beta to 10 pre-release. Once your geodatabases have been upgraded to 10 pre-release, a 10 final client can then be used to connect to these geodatabases. You can then continue using the 10 pre-release geodatabase or upgrade it to 10 final as we recommend.      If you have any other questions on this let me know.  If you need help with upgrading your geodatabases; you can either reply to this thread or contact Technical Support at 1-888-377-4575. ... View more

  BTW, the doc does make it seem like I need to be in an edit session. Ted, Are you referring to this line? "The reconcile process requires that you are the only user currently   editing the version and the only user able to edit the version   throughout the reconcile process until you save or post." In this doc: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//0017000000p9000000.htm ... View more

Ted, You can run the reconcile outside of an edit session and outside of ArcMap/ArcCatalog. The edit session will taken care of by the tool. Just be sure to choose the appropriate conflict detection method and reconcile option (favor target or favor edit) because the reconcile will be saved when the tool finishes. ... View more

Hi Kalle, Try this: fc = 'TEST.russellpythonguidtest' rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor(fc) for row in rows:      row.PYTHONGUID = row.GlobalID      rows.updateRow(row) Here is an option if you want to have a GUID that is unique from the GlobalID. import uuid fc = 'TEST.russellpythonguidtest' rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor(fc) for row in rows:      row.PYTHONGUID = '{' + str(uuid.uuid1()) + '}'      rows.updateRow(row) There is some more doc here on using UUIDs with Python. You can use uuid4() to get a more random assignment.  http://docs.python.org/library/uuid.html ... View more

Hi Ted, ListVersions should return only what that user has permissions to see. Make sure that you are connecting to the same workspace both when running ListVersions as well as when running reconcile. Try setting the workspace environment at the start of your script. import arcpy arcpy.env.workspace = r"Database  Connections\zzzyyyxxx_tcronin@sdemapper@ACR-GIS2@TestServer.sde" ... I did not see in your script where you referenced reconcile. However in the error message the syntax looks incorrect. arcpy.ReconcileVersion_management (versionList, version,  'ACR_FINAL.Master', "BY_OBJECT", "FAVOR_TARGET_VERSION",  "NO_LOCK_AQUIRED", "NO_ABORT", "NO_POST") From what I am seeing above you are passing in your versionList where you should be providing a workspace. If you want to run the reconcile for each version you will need to do something like this: import arcpy arcpy.env.workspace = r"Database  Connections\zzzyyyxxx_tcronin@sdemapper@ACR-GIS2@TestServer.sde" workspace = arcpy.env.workspace versionList = arcpy.ListVersions () versionList.remove('dbo.DEFAULT') versionList.remove('ACR_FINAL.Master') for version in versionList:     arcpy.ReconcileVersion_management (workspace, version,  'ACR_FINAL.Master', "BY_OBJECT", "FAVOR_TARGET_VERSION",  "NO_LOCK_AQUIRED", "NO_ABORT", "NO_POST") #this is assuming that 'ACR_FINAL.Master is the parent version to all other versions in the list. ... View more

Jon, The intent of the Geodatabase and ArcSDE forums are to capture all information as it pertains to these topics. Our decision to go with the current structure was from user feedback indicating that the previous versions of the forums were too fragmented (there were 17 related to Geodatabase and ArcSDE combined). This resulted in cross posts to multiple forums in an attempt to get answers to questions. Our hope is that having lots of people looking at fewer forums rather than a few people looking at lots of forums will result in a larger community of users seeing more conversations.  That said, we may have gone a bit too far with the Geodatabase and ArcSDE forum. We expect to modify the categories based on activity and user feedback. During the beta, the combined Geodatabase & ArcSDE forum seemed to work well.  As traffic on the forum increases, we'll consider and quickly decide when and how it needs to be split.  Input like yours helps us a great deal, so we appreciate your time to post this. ... View more

Ted/Bart, Rather than trying to troubleshoot this through the forums can you guys log support incidents with us. I think it will be faster to get an answer that way. Russell ... View more

Hi RudinA, There is currently an enhancement request in our system to implement this functionality: NIM050307 - Option to attach the old archive table (_h) back to the original feature class on re-enabling archiving. After disabling archiving on a feature class it is not possible to then enable archiving and still have the original archive class be associated with the feature class. Each time archiving is enabled a new archive class is created. This is currently a known limitation in the software and is not something that will be updated in ArcGIS 10. ... View more

Hi Cory, Please contact support. We will be able to help troubleshoot this issue. ... View more

The Initial Data File Size used to be 40 MB, and now it is showing 100 MB, is this the expected behavior? Can you provide some more information about exactly what you are seeing? ... View more

Micah, There is a geoprocessing tool 'Create File GDB' which will allow you to create an empty geodatabase at version 9.4, 9.3 or 9.2. After using this tool you could then use ArcGIS Desktop 9.4 to copy data from a 9.4 File Geodatabase to a 9.3 or 9.2 File Geodatabase which would enable you to view data in previous ArcGIS Desktop versions. Edit: This functionality will be available at Bata 2. ... View more

Please contact support and we can work with you ensure this is logged into our system correctly. ... View more

Thanks Bart, I have forwarded this information on to our documentation team. ... View more

Countygis, Take a look at the following help topics regarding field types. Data Types in the DBMS http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Data-types-in-the-DBMS/005S0000000Q000000/ Geodatabase field data types http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Geodatabase-field-data-types/005S0000000P000000/ A comparison of ArcGIS - ArcSDE - and SQL Server data types http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/A-comparison-of-ArcGIS--ArcSDE--and-SQL-Server-data-types/002Q00000068000000/ For building DBMS joins you might want to check out Query Layers which are new in 9.4. What is a query layer http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/What-is-a-query-layer-/006600000083000000/ Preparing to use query layers http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Preparing-to-use-query-layers/006600000084000000/ Creating a query layer http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Creating-a-query-layer/006600000086000000/ Working with a query layer in ArcMap http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Working-with-a-query-layer-in-ArcMap/006600000089000000/ Choosing a unique id field http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Choosing-a-unique-identifier-field/006600000087000000/ Defining the spatial reference of the query layer http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Defining-the-spatial-reference-of-the-query-layer/006600000088000000/ Modifying a query layer http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Modifying-a-query-layer/00660000008M000000/ Connecting to a database http://help.esri.com/en/arcgisdesktop/9.4/help/index.htm#/Connecting-to-a-database/006600000085000000/ ... View more