[Qgis-user] Questions about vector connections to ArcSDE

[Alister Hood]

Hi Stefan,
1. I made no progress with the problem of connecting to a remote SDE server (as opposed to a local server, which I don't have access to).
2. I don't know whether Marty made any progress with read-write access and the other issues.
3. After I sent that message, Marica also posted to the forum thread with another question which was not answered.
No, I haven't tried with SDE10.x, either.  Please let us know what success you have though :)

Alister

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Keller [mailto:sfkeller at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2012 11:28 a.m.
To: Alister Hood
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Questions about vector connections to ArcSDE

Hi Alister, hi QGIS user and QGIS dev

2011/9/26 Alister Hood <alister.hood at synergine.com>:
> Hi,
> We've been trying to troubleshoot connection to ArcSDE, in the forum 
> at
> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8835&p=21599 and 
> subsequently via PM.  If anyone has some experience with this, we're 
> wondering a few
> things:
> 1) If you have write permissions (i.e. the right username and 
> password), and you connect via "Add vector layer->Database->ESRI 
> ArcSDE", should the connection be read-write?  Marty is finding that it is read-only.
> 2) Can you connect to a remote ArcSDE server via "Add vector
> layer->Database->ESRI ArcSDE"?
> 3) If you are connecting to a remote ArcSDE server, either this way, 
> or using a VRT, what do you enter as the "host"?  Is it the url of the 
> server, without any http etc?
> 4) Using a VRT, Marty is finding that it appears to be read-write 
> (although the "delete features" button is disabled), but when he stops 
> editing nothing is actually saved back to the SDE.  Does it work for 
> anybody else?
> 5) Using a VRT, Marty is finding that some of the attribute fields 
> show up with NULL values, but connecting via "Add vector
> layer->Database->ESRI ArcSDE" the correct values are shown.  Does
> anybody have an idea about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Alister
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Was there an outcome of these observations and questions?

Has anybody tested it with ArcSDE 10.x (especially under Windows)?

Yours, S.