Accessing internal data sources
Internal data sources are any data assets managed by your organization. These data sources could be local files, network files, or organization databases. For Alteryx, any file stored on your PC's hard drive (such as your C drive) is considered a local file, whereas a network file is any file stored on the organization's network storage. In either of these cases, the way you access them in Alteryx is the same. Still, when you start trying to automate them, how they behave on the server depends on specific configurations we will examine in the Using the Alteryx Input Data tool section.
The first significant challenge in accessing data sources is locating them. Alteryx Connect provides a level of discoverability and organization. It can search across network locations and extract the details of the files' location and their metadata. For example, Connect can pull a list of tables in a database, the columns in those tables, and the tables...
