I'm wondering if anyone can help with the syntax (or confirm that it can be done) to reference an SQL table that's in a non-spatial database in a python script
In my case I'm trying to append from this table into an SDE table. I need the field mapping, because there is an ID field in the source table (non-spatial) that needs to be preserved and by default it treats it as an object id field, so it changes every time the job is run, which is a problem. So it is mapped to the correct column in the target (SDE) table.
The connection to the SQL non-spatial database is fine in ArcMap, and I can run the append tool without issue. Whne I grab the python snippet, no matter how I modify the table name/path, the Append_management section fails, saying 'Cannot open table...' (the input table).
Here's what I have: (only import currently is arcpy)
arcpy.Append_management
(inputs="SQLDB.TABLENAME.dbo.users", *this is what the table is listed as under 'properties' in the catalog window in ArcMap
target= SDE_DEV + "\TABLENAME_DEV",
schema_type="NO_TEST",
field_mapping=....)
SDE_DEV is a variable that is the path to the SDE connection file + sde file name to our dev sde database. I've tried the same methodology for the input dataset, with no luck so far.
Gracias -
Allen