Data Transformation Engine Design Studio Tutorial
Chapter 20 - Creating a Validation Map  Files Used in this Chapter 
Design Studio Tutorial 
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Files You Create or Modify for Chapter 20 
The following table describes the files that you create or modify while you perform 
the exercises for this chapter. 
Icon  File type  Name  Description 
Text file  Contact.txt  Input data text file that contains a 
single contact record of 
information about one customer. 
Type tree  Contact.mtt  Type tree describing the contact 
data. 
Map 
source file 
Contact.mms  Map source file containing the 
Contact map, which maps a 
contact to a contact to validate 
the type definitions. 
Compiled 
map file 
Contact.mmc  Compiled map file that generates 
the ContactOutput.txt file. 
Text file  ContactOutput.txt  Output data file that contains 
indexed purchase orders with a 
header record, multiple detail 
records, and a trailer record. 
Type tree 
analysis 
message 
file 
*.dbe  Type analysis message generated 
from the type tree analysis. 
 Map build 
analysis 
results file 
*.mme  Map build analysis results file 
generated from the build process. 
 Map 
source 
options file 
*.mopt  Map options file created 
automatically during the Save 
process. 
 Backup 
type tree 
and map 
files 
*.bak  Backup type tree files and map 
source files are created 
automatically during the Save 
process. 










