RE: OT: External table novelties

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:39:28 -0700
Message-Id: <1093498768.1893.31.camel@poirot>

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:43, Ken Naim wrote:
> Well this is not that novel but might be worth including we use external
> tables as our "staging" tables for our data warehouse; It saves us from
> duplicating space as we can manipulate the data directly from the flat file
> and it allows us to do it all in one pass rather than two.
>

Appreciate the reply.

You are however doing exactly what external tables were designed for.

I'm trying to avoid that. :)

Jared

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