Upgrade Geodatabase

Summary

Upgrades a geodatabase to the latest ArcGIS release to take advantage of new functionality.

You must have the current release of ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server installed on the computer from which you will run the upgrade. For enterprise geodatabases, you must connect directly to the geodatabase to upgrade; you cannot connect through an ArcSDE service.

Usage

• The Upgrade Geodatabase tool accepts a personal geodatabase, file geodatabase, or .sde connection file as input.

• You cannot upgrade desktop, workgroup, or enterprise geodatabases from ArcGIS Desktop Basic.

• Before you upgrade your enterprise geodatabase, be sure you have performed the preparatory steps needed for the database management system you are using, including creating a backup of the database.

  • Upgrade a geodatabase in Db2
  • Upgrade a geodatabase in Informix
  • Upgrade a geodatabase in Oracle
  • Upgrade a geodatabase in PostgreSQL
  • Upgrade a geodatabase in SQL Server

• To determine the geodatabase version, right-click the geodatabase in the Catalog tree and click Properties. The Upgrade Status section of the General tab shows the ArcGIS release of the geodatabase and indicates if your geodatabase can be upgraded to the latest ArcGIS release.
• You must check at least one of either the Perform Pre-Requisite Check parameter or the Upgrade Geodatabase parameter, or you can check both parameters. Not checking either results in an error.
• Esri recommends you use the prerequisite check prior to upgrading your geodatabase to determine if your geodatabase is ready for upgrading. If any of these prerequisites is not met, the tool logs an error in the Results window and does not upgrade the geodatabase. This saves you from starting the upgrade only to have it fail partway through due to one of these prerequisites not having been met. If any checks fail, you must correct the problem and restart the upgrade process.
• Upgrades from beta versions of the geodatabase are not supported.
• The Perform Pre-Requisite Check option runs different checks for each type of geodatabase. For personal and file geodatabases, it determines if any of the following are true:
  • The geodatabase is read-only.
  • There are no other users connected to the geodatabase.
  • The current connection is not editing data in the geodatabase.
  • All the information within the current geodatabase system tables can be opened.
  • For desktop, workgroup, and enterprise geodatabases, it determines if the following criteria are met:
    • The connected user has the appropriate privileges to upgrade the geodatabase.
    • The connected user is not editing data in the geodatabase.
    • No other users are connected to the geodatabase.
    • The database is enabled to support XML data types.
    • All the information within the current geodatabase system tables can be opened.
    • For geodatabases in PostgreSQL and Oracle, it detects whether the database can access the current version of the ST_Geometry library.
    • For geodatabases in a user's schema in Oracle, it detects whether the master geodatabase is upgraded.

• Locators stored in a geodatabase are no longer supported. If you have a locator stored in the geodatabase that you want to upgrade, you must first connect to the geodatabase from ArcGIS Desktop 10.4.1 or older and remove the locator.

Syntax

UpgradeGDB(input_workspace, input_prerequisite_check, input_upgradegdb_check)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
input_workspace	Specify the geodatabase to upgrade. When upgrading a desktop, workgroup, or enterprise geodatabase, specify a database connection file (.sde) that connects to the geodatabase as the geodatabase administrator	Workspace
input_prerequisite_check	Specify whether the prerequisite check is run prior to upgrading the geodatabase. NO_PREREQUISITE_CHECK —Prerequisite check is not run. PREREQUISITE_CHECK —Prerequisite check is run. This is the default.	Boolean
input_upgradegdb_check	Specify whether to upgrade the geodatabase or not. NO_UPGRADE —The upgrade is not run. UPGRADE —The upgrade is run. This is the default.	Boolean

Derived Output

Name	Explanation	Data Type
out_workspace	The updated geodatabase.	Workspace

Code sample

UpgradeGeodatabase example 1 (Python window)

The following Python window script demonstrates how to use the UpgradeGDB function in immediate mode to upgrade a file geodatabase:

import arcpy
default_gdb = "C:/temp/Default.gdb"
arcpy.UpgradeGDB_management(default_gdb, "PREREQUISITE_CHECK", "UPGRADE")

UpgradeGeodatabase example 2 (stand-alone)

The following stand-alone Python script demonstrates how to use the UpgradeGDB function in Python scripting to upgrade a file geodatabase:

# Description: upgrade a geodatabase
 
# Import arcpy module
import arcpy

# Local variables:
default_gdb = "C:/temp/Default.gdb"

# Process: Upgrade Geodatabase
arcpy.UpgradeGDB_management(default_gdb, "PREREQUISITE_CHECK", "UPGRADE")

UpgradeGeodatabase example 3 (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone Python script demonstrates how to use the UpgradeGDB function in Python scripting to upgrade an enterprise geodatabase using an existing .sde connection file:

# Description: upgrade a geodatabase

# Import arcpy module
import arcpy

# Local variables:
default_gdb = "C:/connections/gdbconnection.sde"

# Process: Upgrade Geodatabase
arcpy.UpgradeGDB_management(default_gdb, "PREREQUISITE_CHECK", "UPGRADE")

UpgradeGeodatabase example 4 (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone Python script demonstrates how to use the UpgradeGDB function in Python scripting to upgrade an enterprise geodatabase:

"""
Name: upgrade_gdb.py
Description: Provide connection information to an Enterprise geodatabase 
and upgrade the geodatabase
Type upgrade_gdb.py -h or upgrade_gdb.py --help for usage
"""

# Import system modules
import arcpy
import os
import optparse
import sys


# Define usage and version
parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage = "usage: %prog [Options]", version="%prog 2.0; valid for 10.1 only")

#Define help and options
parser.add_option ("--DBMS", dest="Database_type", type="choice", choices=['SQLSERVER', 'ORACLE', 'POSTGRESQL', 'DB2','INFORMIX','DB2ZOS',''], default="", help="Type of enterprise DBMS:  SQLSERVER, ORACLE, or POSTGRESQL.")
parser.add_option ("-i", dest="Instance", type="string", default="", help="DBMS instance name")
parser.add_option ("--auth", dest="account_authentication", type ="choice", choices=['DATABASE_AUTH', 'OPERATING_SYSTEM_AUTH'], default='DATABASE_AUTH', help="Authentication type options (case-sensitive):  DATABASE_AUTH, OPERATING_SYSTEM_AUTH.  Default=DATABASE_AUTH")
parser.add_option ("-u", dest="User", type="string", default="", help="Geodatabase administrator user name")
parser.add_option ("-p", dest="Password", type="string", default="", help="Geodatabase administrator password")
parser.add_option ("--upgrade", dest="Upgrade", type="choice", choices=['TRUE', 'FALSE'], default="FALSE", help="Upgrade Options (case-sensitive):  TRUE=Perform Pre-requisite check and upgrade geodatabase, FALSE=Perform Pre-requisite check only.  Default=FALSE")                   
parser.add_option ("-D", dest="Database", type="string", default="none", help="Database name:  Not required for Oracle")


# Check if value entered for option
try:
	(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

	
#Check if no system arguments (options) entered
	if len(sys.argv) == 1:
		print("%s: error: %s\n" % (sys.argv[0], "No command options given"))
		parser.print_help()
		sys.exit(3)

	#Usage parameters for spatial database connection to upgrade
	account_authentication = options.account_authentication.upper()
	username = options.User.lower() 
	password = options.Password	
	do_upgrade = options.Upgrade
	database = options.Database.lower()
	database_type = options.Database_type.upper()
	instance = options.Instance
	
	if (database_type == ""):
		print("\nDatabase type must be specified!\n")
		parser.print_help()
		sys.exit(3)
	
	if (database_type == "SQLSERVER"):
		database_type = "SQL_SERVER"
	
	# Get the current product license
	product_license=arcpy.ProductInfo()
	
	# Checks required license level to upgrade
	if product_license.upper() == "ARCVIEW" or product_license.upper() == 'ENGINE':
		print("\n" + product_license + " license found!" + "  Enterprise geodatabase upgrade requires an ArcGIS Desktop Standard or Advanced, ArcGIS Engine with the Geodatabase Update extension, or ArcGIS Server license.")
		sys.exit("Re-authorize ArcGIS before upgrading.")
	else:
		print("\n" + product_license + " license available!  Continuing to upgrade...")
		arcpy.AddMessage("+++++++++")
	
	# Local variables
	instance_temp = instance.replace("\\","_")
	instance_temp = instance_temp.replace("/","_")
	instance_temp = instance_temp.replace(":","_")
	Conn_File_NameT = instance_temp + "_" + database + "_" + username     
	
	if os.environ.get("TEMP") == None:
		temp = "c:\\temp"	
	else:
		temp = os.environ.get("TEMP")
	
	if os.environ.get("TMP") == None:
		temp = "/usr/tmp"		
	else:
		temp = os.environ.get("TMP")  
	
	Connection_File_Name = Conn_File_NameT + ".sde"
	Connection_File_Name_full_path = temp + os.sep + Conn_File_NameT + ".sde"
	
	# Check for the .sde file and delete it if present
	arcpy.env.overwriteOutput=True
	if os.path.exists(Connection_File_Name_full_path):
		os.remove(Connection_File_Name_full_path)
	
	print("\nCreating Database Connection File...\n")
	# Process: Create Database Connection File...
	# Usage:  out_file_location, out_file_name, DBMS_TYPE, instnace, database, account_authentication, username, password, save_username_password(must be true)
	arcpy.CreateDatabaseConnection_management(out_folder_path=temp, out_name=Connection_File_Name, database_platform=database_type, instance=instance, database=database, account_authentication=account_authentication, username=username, password=password, save_user_pass="TRUE")
        for i in range(arcpy.GetMessageCount()):
		if "000565" in arcpy.GetMessage(i):   #Check if database connection was successful
			arcpy.AddReturnMessage(i)
			arcpy.AddMessage("\n+++++++++")
			arcpy.AddMessage("Exiting!!")
			arcpy.AddMessage("+++++++++\n")
			sys.exit(3)            
		else:
			arcpy.AddReturnMessage(i)
			arcpy.AddMessage("+++++++++\n")
			
	# Check whether geodatabase needs upgrade
	isCurrent = arcpy.Describe(Connection_File_Name_full_path).currentRelease
	
	if isCurrent == True:
		print("The geodatabase is already at the current release and cannot be upgraded!")
		sys.exit("Upgrade did not run.")
	
	
	# Process: Upgrade geodatabase...
	try:
		if do_upgrade.lower() == "true":
			print("Upgrading Geodatabase...\n")
			arcpy.UpgradeGDB_management(input_workspace=Connection_File_Name_full_path, input_prerequisite_check="PREREQUISITE_CHECK", input_upgradegdb_check="UPGRADE")
			for i in range(arcpy.GetMessageCount()):
				arcpy.AddReturnMessage(i)
			arcpy.AddMessage("+++++++++\n")
	
		else:
			print("Running Pre-Requisite Check...\n")
			arcpy.UpgradeGDB_management(input_workspace=Connection_File_Name_full_path, input_prerequisite_check="PREREQUISITE_CHECK", input_upgradegdb_check="NO_UPGRADE")
			for i in range(arcpy.GetMessageCount()):
				arcpy.AddReturnMessage(i)
			arcpy.AddMessage("+++++++++\n")
		
	        
	except:
		for i in range(arcpy.GetMessageCount()):
			arcpy.AddReturnMessage(i)
		
	if os.path.exists(Connection_File_Name_full_path):
		os.remove(Connection_File_Name_full_path)
	
#Check if no value entered for option	
except SystemExit as e:
	if e.code == 2:
		parser.usage = ""
		print("\n")
		parser.print_help()
		parser.exit(2)

Environments

• Current Workspace

Licensing information

• Basic: Yes
• Standard: Yes
• Advanced: Yes