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Re: OT: Learning Curve for Informatica ETL Products

From: paquette stephane <stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:19:27 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00342865.20010706013124@fatcity.com>

Hi,

We're currently using Powermart. I'm not developping the mappings but I'm checking what the developpers are doing. I've used Sagent tool a little bit and at a client we've developped the ETL tool ourselves.

Powermart is not an easy tool to learn.

At my request, we finally have an Informatica consultant in house to look at what we've done so far (yesterday and today). Like all tools, you can do things by yourself but you can't achieve performance without an expert.

There are things you want to do in Oracle and not in the ETL tool so you have some choices to do. I like to put some intellingence in the metadata and have the programs to act accordingly to what the metadata contains. The developpers could not figure out how to do this, the Informatica consultant will show us that this afternoon.

So bottom-line, it is not an easy tool to learn.

Also, you really need a 21 inches screen to work with Powermart.

Stephane


Stéphane Paquette
DBA Oracle, consultant entrepôt de données Oracle DBA, datawarehouse consultant
stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com

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