ETL Concepts
ETL is an acronym for Extraction, Transformation and Loading. This is an all-encompassing domain that deals with the technologies involved in extracting data from disparate systems, treating and cleaning those data, transforming the data and finally load it to one or more target systems.
What is Data Integration (DI)?
In this tutorial we will learn - what is meant by the term "Data Integration" (DI), how data integration is done and why the need of data integration often requires us to build a data warehouse.
Updated 29 Sep, 2020
Read MoreWhy do we need Staging Area during ETL Load
We have a simple data warehouse that takes data from a few RDBMS source systems and load the data in dimension and fact tables of the warehouse. I wonder why we have a staging layer in between. Why can’t we process everything on the fly and push them in the data warehouse?
Updated 29 Sep, 2020
Read MoreMethods of Incremental Loading in Data Warehouse
Incremental loading a.k.a Delta loading is a widely used method to load data in data warehouses from the respective source systems. This technique is employed to perform faster load in less time utilizing less system resources. In this tutorial we will understand the basic methods of incremental loading.
Updated 29 Sep, 2020
Read MoreIncremental Loading for Dimension Table
In our previous article we have discussed the concept of incremental loading in general. In this article we will see how to perform incremental loading for dimension tables.
Updated 29 Sep, 2020
Read MoreIncremental Loading for Fact Tables
In the previous articles, we have discussed the general concepts of incremental data loading as well as how to perform incremental data loading for dimension tables. In this article we will discuss the methods and issues of loading data incrementally in Fact tables of a data warehouse.
Updated 29 Sep, 2020
Read MoreBuilding the Next Generation ETL data loading Framework
Do you wish for an ETL framework that is highly customizable, light-weight and suits perfectly with all of your data loading needs? We too! Let's build one together...
Updated 29 Sep, 2020
Read MoreTop 25 Unix interview questions with answers (Part I)
This article attempts to refresh your Unix skills in the form of a question/answer based Unix tutorial on Unix command lines. The commands discussed here are particularly useful for the developers working in the middle-tier (e.g. ETL) systems, where they may need to interact with several linux source systems for data retrieval.
Updated 28 Aug, 2022
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