diff --git a/dbt/adapters/base/__init__.py b/dbt/adapters/base/__init__.py
index ade1af3d..f097cad9 100644
--- a/dbt/adapters/base/__init__.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/base/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from dbt.adapters.base.meta import available
 from dbt.adapters.base.column import Column
+from dbt.adapters.base.catalogs import Catalog
 from dbt.adapters.base.connections import BaseConnectionManager
 from dbt.adapters.base.impl import (
     AdapterConfig,
diff --git a/dbt/adapters/capability.py b/dbt/adapters/capability.py
index 2bd49112..4e410bb2 100644
--- a/dbt/adapters/capability.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/capability.py
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ class Capability(str, Enum):
     """Indicates support for getting catalog information including table-level and column-level metadata for a single
     relation."""
 
+    CreateExternalCatalog = "CreateExternalCatalog"
+
 
 class Support(str, Enum):
     Unknown = "Unknown"
diff --git a/dbt/adapters/contracts/connection.py b/dbt/adapters/contracts/connection.py
index 2b694e00..751d6135 100644
--- a/dbt/adapters/contracts/connection.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/contracts/connection.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     ValidatedStringMixin,
     dbtClassMixin,
 )
-from dbt_config.external_config import ExternalCatalogConfig
+from dbt_config.catalog_config import ExternalCatalogConfig
 
 
 # TODO: this is a very bad dependency - shared global state