I’m unable to establish a connection to SDE after recently receiving a permanent license file from Safe. I’ve tried connecting using several methods: connection files stored in 'C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Esri\Desktop10.8\ArcCatalog\’, connection file stored on a network directory; and typing in the database credentials.
I was able to successfully use the same connection files while using the temporary license file provided and am not aware of any other changes in our IT environment. I’ve also tried (unsuccessfully) to connect to other SQL databases in our Data Warehouse (outside the GIS environment) that contain tabular data and receive the same error message (shown in red below) which appears after selecting the ‘...’ under “Tables” in the Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) Parameters dialog box that normally opens the list of feature classes/tables that can be added to the workspace.
‘Failed to retrieve feature types. An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the connection parameters from the connection file’
And from the log file: ‘Failed to obtain any schemas from reader 'GEODATABASE_SDE' from 1 datasets. This may be due to invalid datasets or format accessibility issues due to licensing, dependencies, or module loading.’
I’m able to work with spreadsheets, shapefiles, .csv, and Esri FGDB without any issue but for some reason can’t access our Enterprise SDE database. Any suggestions? TIA!