Category: Teradata ETL

  • Complex Data Integration: Best Practices

    With 25 years plus experience as a Data Architect in both Fortune 500 and start up business I’ve seen a lot of pain points of complex data integration. Let’s list out typical issues facing data integration; (Note: This article is a work in progress) Poorly designed data models (This deserves 5 bullet points) Large and/or…

  • ETL Data Lake vs Data Warehouse

    Rules Based/Metadata ETL has Lowered the LOE of ETL Typically Associated with a Data Warehouse. METL makes a fundamental change of the cost calculus between a Data Lake vs the IDW. A Data Lake is loosely integrated data typically placed in Hadoop. An IDW has tightly integrated data stored in either a relational database and/or…