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Don't confuse ETL with Data Migration

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Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Just caught Johny Morris's blog in which he neatly differentiates ETL (Extract Transform Load) from Data Migration. His thesis was that ETL is a regular periodic copying of data from one environment to another, and does not therefore require any process around removing the source version of the data or decommissioning. Data Migration by contrast is the permanent, one-time movement of a set
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