Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Feb 11 03:10:09 CST 2004
Hi Bruce > We used Rekall some time ago as an ETL interface for a PostgresQL db. I > must admit I did not do the work myself. However the guy that got me the > data turned it around in a couple of hours (128Mb flat data formatted as we > requested) and I dont think he was a superguru. After we massaged the data > (remove dups & inactive accounts, standardise NAD format, restructure into > a relationship between client/account) we returned them about 67Mb to > reload which he did while we were chatting about operational data quality - > about 30 min. So in terms of doing things of that nature quickly it looked > good from a short distance. OK. I had no idea what ETL is but found an explanation here: http://www.orafaq.com/glossary/faqglose.htm /gustav