Migrate Storage (Data Management)

Summary

This tool is designed to change the data types used to store rasters in an ArcSDE geodatabase in Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server; geometries in geodatabases in Oracle and SQL Server; and BLOB objects in attribute columns in geodatabases in Oracle. This is done through the migration of raster, spatial, or BLOB objects using configuration keywords specified in the DBTUNE table.

CautionCaution:

After migrating the data type, you must disconnect from and reconnect to the geodatabase to reload the column names. If you do not, subsequent actions executed on the newly migrated datasets may fail.

Usage

Syntax

MigrateStorage_management (in_datasets, config_keyword)
ParameterExplanationData Type
in_datasets
[in_dataset,...]

Datasets to be migrated

Table View; Raster Layer; Feature Dataset
config_keyword

DBTUNE configuration keyword containing the appropriate parameter values for the migration.

String

Code Sample

MigrateStorage example (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone script demonstrates how to use the Migrate Storage tool to migrate the input dataset to the ST_Geometry geometry storage type.

# Name: MigrateStorage_Example.py
# Description: Migrates the input dataset to the ST_Geometry geometry stoage type 
# Author: ESRI

# Import arcpy module
import arcpy

# Local variables:
inputDataset = "Database Connections\\Oracle on barbara.sde\\MAP.SBMigrate"

# Process: Migrate Storage
arcpy.MigrateStorage_management( inputDataset, "ST_GEOMETRY")

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments

Related Topics

Licensing Information

ArcView: No
ArcEditor: Yes
ArcInfo: Yes

10/27/2014