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You may also be interested in The Local Government Information Model—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop there is a geometric network for water and sewer with predefined fields and domains. You'll also be able to take advantage of COTS ESRI has a available. ... View more

I use geometric networks for my city's water and sewer utilities. I find them to be an effective way to maintain these utilities. If you use the The Local Government Information Model—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop you'll also get a few more advantages of predefined data that will have most if not all the information attributes configured for you. With this model there are also some COTS (commercial off the shelf) programs you could implement with little work. A quick tour of subtypes—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

10,000 features wouldn't be a problem. You could simply join the 2 tables then use field calculator. ... View more

Have you tried doing this in model builder. Most everything you'll need should be in there and it will give you a head start if you need to do any coding. What is ModelBuilder?—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

When tables are joined the only table available for editing is the source table. ... View more

Is that all you have to worry about(because I'm guessing there's more) Open your python interpretor and play with your various values till you start getting the desired result >>> a = '181073/23792/ST/1' >>> b = a.split('/') >>> b[1] '23792' Below is a list of your examples and they all produce the same result. a = ['181073/23792/ST/1',"181073/23792/st1","181073/23792/st","1,181073/23792/ST/01"] #I'm walking through the list using the for statement. #In field calculator you will not need to use for, you'll need each = str(!yourfield!) for each in a:   #The if statement is testing to see if there is a comma in your each variable   if ',' in each:     #So if there is a comma we will split the each variable into pieces.     #The number of pieces are based on the number of commas     each = each.split(',')[-1]   #Now we'll split either what's left from the if statement or the original each value   each = each.split('/')[0]   #Now we'll add the proper ending back   each = each + '/ST/1'   #Finally we will print the value so we can see it.   #In the field calculator you'll use the return statement   #return each   print each ... View more

My next thought would be feature linked annotation. Hope someone else has a better answer. Create Feature Linked Annotation—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

You may want to try using make feature layer to isolate the country. You also might have a look at Spatial Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  which would do what you are trying to do arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(contriesfcorlayer,yourlayer+ii,whereclause to get ii) Make Feature Layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop You may also wish to move your question to Python​ or python snippets​ ... View more

Have you looked at Working with the Maplex Label Engine—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop looks like it has a few options ... View more

The only way I know of is to create and save Save To Layer File—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop you could then add the layer files with the symbology already in place. ... View more

You could use model builder to do it. The tools you'll need are listed below. Spatial Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Add Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Calculate Field—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Remove Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  ... View more

To add to Darren's I think you could also testChoice = str(CHOICE_keyword) if testChoice.isdigit():   where_clause    = """{0} = {1}""".format(arcpy.AddFieldDelimiters(featureClass, CHOICE_field), CHOICE_keyword) else:   where_clause    = """{0} = '{1}'""".format(arcpy.AddFieldDelimiters(featureClass, CHOICE_field), CHOICE_keyword) ... View more

It might be that you have quotes around '{1}' which makes it a string ... View more

The only way I know of is to use Layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  files. ... View more