ETL

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ETL also means Express Toll Lanes, see Express Toll Lanes.Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is a process in data warehousing that involves extracting data from outside sources, transforming it to fit business needs (which can include quality levels), and ultimately loading it into the end target, i.e. the data warehouse. ETL is important, as it is the way data actually gets loaded into the warehouse. This article assumes that data is always loaded into a data warehouse, whereas the term ETL can in fact refer to a process that loads any database. ETL can also be used for the integration with legacy systems. Usually ETL implementations store an audit trail on positive and negative process runs. In almost all designs, this audit trail is not at the level of granularity which would allow to reproduce the ETL's result if the raw data were not available.
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<database> The processes of Extracting, Transforming (or Transporting), and Loading data from source systems into a data warehouse.
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