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insight series: introduction to automatic rationalization

An expressor image is an XML-based description of a data record in an expressor data integration application.  Each element in an image file describes a column in a database table.  As part of writing an image file, you carry out the expressor semantic rationalization process. During this semantic rationalization process you specify for each field [...]

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insight series: creating drawings with expressor illustrator

expressor illustrator is a graphical interface based on Microsoft Visio that application developers use to creating data-flow diagrams, called “drawings” in expressor.  expressor illustrator drawings are comprised of expressor processor image, network and channel descriptions, and connectors (called “motors” in expressor) and operators.                                         expressor illustrator — Microsoft Visio based application used by ETL developers [...]

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Insight series: expressor projects

This is the second in a series of mini-tutorials (click here to go to previous tutorial) designed to provide insight into expressor’s features and capabilities. In this particular blog, I’ll explain some of the basics of an expressor project, which is the foundation for building an expressor data integration application. Each project is composed of: [...]

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Insight series: expressor parallel processing

This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials designed to provide additional insight into specific technical features and capabilities of the expressor semantic data integration system.  We’re starting with an examination of our implementation of parallel processing. expressor uses three compatible and combinatorial techniques for parallel processing to provide high scalability while maintaining high [...]

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