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Common ETL tools

Common ETL tools

- It's time to explore the ETL tools. These tools are the workhorses that automate and manage the extract, transform and load cycle, making the data more accessible and useful for the business. ETL tools are software applications, which is designed to facilitate the ETL process. It helps to extract data from variety of sources, helps to transforming it according to the business tools and requirement and helps to loading it into a destination, like a data warehouse for analysis. The choice of a ETL tools can significantly impact the efficiency of your data operations, the scalability of data process, and ultimately the insights which you can derive from the data. If you talk there are broadly, ETL tools can be divided into three categories. The first one is traditional on premises tools. Now, as the name suggests, these are the little older ones and mostly works at on premises environment. These are something which…

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