ETL

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ETL refers to the Data Warehouse data acquisition processes of Extracting, Transforming (or Transporting) and Loading (hence ETL) from source systems into a data warehouse or data mart.

ETL processes

Extract

Data are read from source systems. Data may be acquired from several sources that use different storage formats.

Transform

Data is moved from the source to the target systems and is cleaned-up and changed to accommodate the data structures on the target system.

Load

Data is loaded into the target data warehouse or data mart.

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