A geodatabase that stores data in Microsoft Access format.
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How much database bloat is reasonable?
I use personal geodatabases to hold all the data for my projects (probably around 10-20 feature classes across 2-4 datasets on average). I use the personal gdb because I like being able to hook into ...
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Cannot Import Feature Class into Personal Geodatabase in ArcGIS 10.1
My objective is really simple. I have a shapefile and would like to convert it to a Feature Class. My goal is to use HEM tools, which I think requires me to convert my shapefile of interest to a ...
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Copying Features from One ArcMap window to another, without losing Related Tables
In our current workflow we are working in a Personal Geodatabase with few features and related tables , many persons will be working in different schemes.
When we need to merge these schemes\Pgdb to ...
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How to Export a Personal Geodatabase to ArcSDE
I want to copy/export my personal geodatabase which consists of feature datasets, relationship class etc to an Enterprise geodatabase. What would be the best approach?
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Read an ArcGIS Feature dataset using GDAL
I am new to GDAL in Python and would like to use it to create a list of populated layers in a ArcGIS mdb Feature datasets. I have the code below that provides a list of all the populated layers but ...
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Driver Error : DTM to Raster using GDAL_GRID
I am looking to interpolate a DTM (eventually over 4,000 DTMs) that is in a personal geodatabase format. I would like to do this in as few step as possible, eventually writing a batch script to do ...
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Latitude and Longitudes are replaced with zeros when importing excel 2007 worksheet into personal geodatabase
I am trying to import an Excel 2007 data set into a personal geodatabase so I can convert coordinate systems. The data set includes point locations in Decimal Degrees. When I import the Excel ...
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Why does ArcMap connect to a Personal Geodatabase (PGDB) even when no feature classes (or tables?) are referenced in the MXD?
I have an odd question from a user in the same goverment that I work for.
When he opens a .MXD-project in ArcMAP a Personal Geodatabase also opens that is not part of the project and does not have ...
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Is there a way to create a Personal Geodatabase in QGIS?
I believe I know the answer, but I wanted to ask. Is there a way to create a Personal Geodatabase in QGIS? I know QGIS can view Personal Geodatabases, but can one be created? I have a project where ...
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Can ESRI Personal Geodatabase be viewed with any software other than ArcGIS?
Is it possible to open a PGDB file in software other than ArcGIS?
i.e are there any opensource software available just for viewing the data?
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When Zooming Personal Geodatabase Feature Class Error came
When i joined two different feature class attribute table while i have to zooming the PGDB feature class , drawing error will come. I have attached an example image to show the problem. Thanks to ...
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how does a personal-gdb work from a MS Access perspective?
I am trying to get a better general understanding of how ArcGIS works with MS Access when using a personal geodatabase. If I create a new pgdb and then import a very simple shapefile and finally look ...
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Append feature layer from one personal geodatabase to another using .Net
I currently have a client that still uses personal geodatabases (Access files). I currently have to open up ArcCatalog and manually append any FeatureLayers that are contained in the original personal ...
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Problem Coordinate Tolerances , when i export my .shp files to .mdb
When i was export my shape file to PGDB using ArcMap software result will not come original database, i am not aware how to solve this problem.
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Are personal geodatabases better suited for quickly querying indexed attributes than file geodatabases?
I'm preparing data for an ArcEngine application that queries the data to search for an address. Sometimes we search just on the street name field, just on the house number field, or both. When using ...
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How to distinguish between File and Personal Geodb workspace?
I am looking for a way - given an IWorkspace object - to check if it was created from a Personal-GDB or a File-GDB. I tried using IWorkspace.WorkspaceFactory to check if it's an instance of e.g. ...
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Failure to Delete Vector File from Personal Geodatabase - ArcGIS 9.3
I have a personal geodatabase - based on an MS Access .mdb file - from which I cannot delete an old feature class.
The tables relating to the feature class have been deleted from the .mdb, but the ...
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esri pgdb in qgis
Using osgeo4w 1.5, when I go to add vector layer and select file type,
navigate to my esri pgdb. I get a not a valid or recognized data source.
If I use the database type I get a page that defaults ...
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Allow multiple users to share personal geodatabases safely?
We're using ArcGIS 9.3 but for reasons beyond the scope of this question we have to stick with personal geodatabases (MS Access .mdb's) and multiple users. How can we set this up so only a limited few ...
