Monthly Archives: October 2008

typical work week

So here is one for you. If over 80 percent of data integration projects fail what does that say about a typical work week? Well, at just 80 percent that means four days a week are completely wasted. So why is that? Is the wrong technology being used? Perhaps the operating system needs to be [...]

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etl, elt, whatever it takes

I hear a lot about ELT vs. ETL and frankly I do not get it. Sure doing transformations in the database is great but is has limitations. Data cleansing and hierarchy processing are not the easiest things to do in an RDBMS. Aside from the challenges, lets to the math, as they say numbers don’t [...]

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times are changing

Times are tough right now. Chances are upper management needs some information about the current state of the company to effectively navigate the years ahead. To help simplify matters, information is needed on demand so daily or weekly data will not cut it. You have a few hard choices in IT to decide how to [...]

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