ETL to ELT: The Good, Bad and Unpleasant

With data sources proliferating and batch windows shrinking, data engineers are feeling the squeeze. The business wants more, but there are only 24 hours in a day. Increasingly, practitioners are using ELT instead of ETL, especially when cloud is the target. But even ELT has its limits as it requires highly skilled workers who are in demand; and it tends to be cumbersome and brittle. What's a data pro to do?

Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis as Host @Eric_Kavanagh interviews Industry Analyst Yves Mulkers of 7wData and Rick Sherman of Athena IT Solutions. They will discuss best practices in data integration, offering insights on how to avoid the often unnecessary and time-consuming aspects of extracting, transforming and loading data. They'll also discuss where this industry is heading, with new approaches that promise to relieve the pressure on data engineers.