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Mention ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) and eyes glaze over. The thought goes: “That stuff is old and meant for clunky enterprise data warehouses. What does it have to do with my ...

In today's IT landscape, information is crucial. Any business, could be a startup or an established one, requires relevant data or information to make better business decisions, manage sales ...

The future of data security lies in understanding which identities can execute data processes and what other access those ...

Third generation ETL tools are capable of handling structured data from different data sources including legacy systems such as mainframe and UNIX based application systems, spreadsheets, XML format, ...

SCD type 2 will store the entire history in the dimension table. In SCD type 2 effective date, the dimension table will have start-date and end-date as the fields. If the end-date is null, then it ...