Before you can start adding behavior to your data, you must get it into a geodatabase. The laterals coverage contains the water laterals for the Montgomery water dataset. You will import the water laterals features into the Montgomery geodatabase.

You will use the Import Feature Class tool to import the arcs in the laterals coverage into the Water feature dataset. This tool is used to specify your input coverage, input feature class, and output feature class. Because you opened this tool by right-clicking a feature dataset, the output geodatabase, Montgomery, and feature dataset, Water, are already filled in for you.

There are several ways to set the input and output datasets. You can also drag a dataset or datasets from the ArcCatalog tree or Contents tab and drop them on the text box. Alternatively, you can click the Browse button to open the ArcCatalog minibrowser and navigate to your dataset or type the full pathname to the dataset in the text box.