<div dir="auto"><div>Stewart and list,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 12, 2026, 08:26 Stewart Galloway via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">I have files from a county real property tax a<span>gency but I need help to join the data to the polygons.  I'm familiar with GDBs (polygons) and MDBs (attributes) but not how to join one to the other.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>I'm running ver 3.2 (see below for details).</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>The following is a list of files and extensions:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Thank you.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Stewart</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>.ODC</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Malta.gdb (folder): parcel polygons</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The line above suggests your .mdb has spatial data in a table within it. Maybe this is an ESRI personal geodatabase?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If so, you need to</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Find that table </div><div dir="auto">2. Determine which attribute of that table contains a key value that corresponds to other tables in the .mdb</div><div dir="auto">3. Add the spatial and non spatial tables as layers</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then you can join the layers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This article may help</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/129514/opening-esri-personal-geodatabase-mdb-in-qgis">https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/129514/opening-esri-personal-geodatabase-mdb-in-qgis</a></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"> <span>4140_25-Jun-25.mdb</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">CreateGridForSheetIndex (folder)</div><div dir="ltr">Default.atbx</div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px">Default.gdb</div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.32px">scratch.gdb</div></div>FMV_Data</div><div dir="ltr">Index</div><div dir="ltr">scratch.gdb</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse">
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