Re: 25 words or less - ETL's - opinions (best of) and nightmares (my

• Brian MacLean <bmaclean_at_vcommerce.com> on 11/01/01 12:25:22 -0800

> Come on everyone. In 25 words or less.
>
> "What I like or dislike about my ________ ETL tool".

Ab Initio

> "The ETL feature I like most is it's

fast, scales nicely and is fairly straightforward to maintain. Their GDE makes it fairly strightforward to generate the ETL code and test it.

> "The ETL feature I wish I had most is __________".

the GDE requires windows.

> "If I had it to do all over again I would ________".

Still buy Ab Initio and VMware.

> "Buying _______ was the best decision I ever made because ________".

It works. You can't say that about most things.

> "IMAO ______________________________________________".
The product is well thought out and effective for scalable computing needs. If all you want to do is tickle a few thousand records/minute use DBI. If you need to move millions then Ab Inito is the best bet.

DBI is the obvious other choice. Partly because it also works, well, and partly because it's now supported by Oracle. Perl also provides the best general toolkit for mangling data available.

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