Database Replication for Geometric Networks in Python 3.x

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03-20-2021 10:45 AM
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Brian_McLeer
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Our organization is migrating SDE Python routines from Python 2.x to Python 3.x that run nightly on a SQL Server machine. In this migration process, we discovered that database replication from  ArcGIS Pro (Python 3.x) does not support replicating geometric networks. We had to create a workaround of deleting the GN into the child database, then copy features from parent to child database. 

While we are aware that ArcGIS Pro can only view and not edit geometric networks and that utility networks are the next step, many organizations will be using geometric networks for a while as it will take years to migrate over to the utility network. It would be nice if Python 3.x can function with replicating geometric networks. My understanding it was not until ArcGIS Pro 2.5 or 2.6 that database replication was even available in ArcGIS Pro.