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I'm currently using a CSV reader, Database Joiner and ESRI Geodatabase Writer. The join is working perfectly: 
But when I connect the joined output to the geodatabase writer no records are written to the feature class in the file gdb and I get an error saying "Cannot write a non-area feature to an area feature class": 
I have tried both Drop and Create and Truncate Existing for Table Handling.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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You're trying to write non spatial features to a spatial (polygon) layer.
You'll need to change the Geometry in your writer to "Table"
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Thanks for your response hkingsbury. Changing to "Table" creates a fgdb table. How do I create a feature class?
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Thanks for your response hkingsbury. Changing to "Table" creates a fgdb table. How do I create a feature class?
A table is a type of feature class. Are you expecting the data to be spatial? In its current form there is no geometry on the feature to make it spatial
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Sorry for the confusion, Yes I'd like the output to be spatial. The dataset I'm joining the CSV to is a polygonal feature class in an oracle enterprise database. I want to join the matching record's attributes of the CSV to an existing buildings dataset and export to a file geodatabase on my local machine.
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Sorry for the confusion, Yes I'd like the output to be spatial. The dataset I'm joining the CSV to is a polygonal feature class in an oracle enterprise database. I want to join the matching record's attributes of the CSV to an existing buildings dataset and export to a file geodatabase on my local machine.
Is the geometry coming through encoded in an attribute? If it is, you'll need to use a geometryreplacer to turn it spatial.
If its not coming through at all with the databasejoiner, you might need to look at using an oracle reader and join the data with a featuremerger or featurejoiner
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This was the issue! The geometry wasn't coming through with databasejoiner. I used an oracle spatial reader and fed both datasets into Featurejoiner and was able to write out a polygonal feature class! Thanks so much hkingsbury I really appreciate the help.
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