Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Loading data into a geodatabase

Loading data into geodatabases may or may not fall under your duties as an ArcGIS Enterprise administrator, but the following script demonstrates a few handy Pythonic methods. This is also a common task that can take on many forms. For our example here, we will simulate the loading of data from an enterprise geodatabase into a publication file geodatabase. Let's say that our web services do not have access to the enterprise geodatabase, so we need a read-only copy of that data that can hydrate our web services. However, we cannot have stale, out-of-date data in our publication geodatabase, so we need the publication data updated every day. This is a perfect example of a need that can be met with Python and ...