HypoStores Corporation stores customer data from the Los Angeles office and Boston office in flat files. You want to work with this customer data in the Developer tool. To do this, you need to import each flat file as a physical data object.

In this lesson, you import flat files as physical data objects. You also set the source file directory so that the Data Integration Service can read the source data from the correct directory.

Before you start this lesson, verify the following prerequisite:

You have completed lesson 1 in this tutorial.

Set aside 10 to 15 minutes to complete the tasks in this lesson.