Advantages / Uses of ETL

- Data-warehouse population - ETL tool can be used to populate the dimensions & fact tables of a data-warehouse
- Data migration - ETL tool can be used to migrate or transfer the data between variety of sources like databases, CRMs, cloud, files, emails etc.
- Transferring huge data - ETL tools are used to benefit in the transfer rate as they benefit from different technologies like parallel processing, selective processing, etc.
- Data cleansing- ETL tool can be used to cleanse your data i.e. remove any inconsistent or ambiguous data  
- Source for reports & analysis - ETL readies the data for further representation in the data warehouse in the form of reports or analysis.
- Big data support - ETL tool supports many big data options such as Hadoop, etc.

Comments

  1. konatham prasadOctober 16, 2012 at 4:47 PM

    Hi Could you help me the below problem,

    I have created one ETL job in PDI 4.2.1 and the job contains the following objects
    1) table Input
    2) Insert/Update transformation
    3) dummy
    my problem is if i use the insert/update transformation it is taking long process but if i want update the existing record is there any alternative way

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    1. Jugal DhrangadhariaOctober 19, 2012 at 3:28 PM

      there are many ways you can update ur row likw use the update step, write a sql in a step, etc. chk if tht helps

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