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Originally posted by bobspud View PostThey could try what one of my previous clients did: namely leave the pipe to dev null in the middle of the load section...
Apparently the bob in question only wanted the E and T sections to work to save time
It just a shame that the client didn't catch this in the code and executed it on live then spent 5 days waiting for the load to actually load...While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostLloyds tsb payment processing system?Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View Postthat's one problem. In terms of data migration, it's surprising how it's always tacked on the end of a project whereas it should start ahead of development.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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I've been on more of them than I should (one in current contract).
Although I do enjoy the looks I get when I ask to speak to the Data Architect."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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There's not much to it really and it's been a staple source of contracting income for me over the years. Infact Extract, transform, load - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia pretty much covers all you need to know.
It's the IT equivalent of unblocking toilets full of tulipe. Not fun but pays the bills and crops up over and over again.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostThere's not much to it really and it's been a staple source of contracting income for me over the years. Infact Extract, transform, load - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia pretty much covers all you need to know.
It's the IT equivalent of unblocking toilets full of tulipe. Not fun but pays the bills and crops up over and over again.
And it's this "it's not rocket science" attitude that leads to complacency that leaves things to the end of the project that then ****s things up totally.
It goes like this
Numpty "Just move the stock from the old system to the new system"
SY01 "All fine. There's some new fields in the new system that we don't have data for. We need to define some rules"
Numpty "Just default them all"
SY01 "To what?"
Numpty "I don't know, default values".
SY01 "OK. So let's take the first example. I have a field which flags a product as having stock. Shall I default all your products as stockable?"
Numpty "No you can't, we sell digital online media which isn't stocked"
SY01 "Starting to sound scarily close to defining a rule for this field. How would I identify which products are digital online media?"
Numpty "You can't, well, not easily"
SY01 "OK, so we can't default this value, and you can't provide a rule"
Numpty "Looks that way"
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostETL = Easy Time Luverly-JubblyKnock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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