Ab Initio ETL

[SandyDown]

any experts in Ab initio here, if so is there any info/tutorials I can find?? also my trial version has expired any clues how I can get another trial version??

[AtW]

> Ab Initio ETL

I am afraid not even I heard of it!!!

[SandyDown]

come on there must be a data warehousing / data migration experts here who used Ab Initio??

[fiddleabout]

> I am afraid not even I heard of it!!!

Awww - come on AtW - you're just joshing aren't you

[DimPrawn]

Don't know much about that, but am an expert in Ub O Pi Crat Artio Fud.

Now surely even AtW knows about this popular IT development system?

[AtW]

I swear I never heard of "Ab Initio ETL" in my life - and I do read most popular new sources few times a day since at least late 90s. Search on google for that phrase reveals worrinly too many matches :rolleyes

[SandyDown]

AtW: I must admit I haven't heard of Ab Initio till 6 months ago, Ab Initio is a cool software that extracts all kinds of data stored in any format you can imagine, you can apply business and logical rules to this data then output it in any format you like ... this tool is going to be the next big thing (me thinks) coz in 5-10 years time it is predicted that most databases / data stores will be just toooooooo huge to be processed by sql..... we tried to extract/ process our old legacy systems using oracle sql but it was useless, it too more that 24 hours to run most processes (this is because there is billions of records involved) however Ab Initio did the same job in a few hours... once more you could do everything in Ab Initio using a friendly graphs...

[AtW]

billions of rows is not a lot - proper indexing and data structures as well as good SQL result in good performence.

That software just sounds like a nice client side reporting tool with local db-like storage.

Proper databases will certainly not go away

[SandyDown]

atw this tool is not there to replace databases... its there to extract manipulate data from 1000's of databases / or any other format of data stores apply business rules / other logic then outputs them in any format you like including databses !!

[PerlOfWisdom]

I am afraid not even I heard of it!!!

Who responds to a subject he knows nothing about to say "I am afraid not even I heard of it!!!".

Most people would just ignore the post. But that wouldn't increase number of posts.