Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Why Do We Use Informatica?

This excellent piece in DMReview deliberates on some criteria for selecting (or justifying) an ETL tool. We are struggling with this right now. Our shop uses a combination of Informatica and SQL Server DTS for our ETL jobs. With Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 and SQL Server Integration Services both released as viable alternatives, we need [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Informatica, Oracle, SQL Server by Shane

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

PowerExchange Throughput

I got a question about PowerExchange throughput the other day. When we were first evaluating PowerExchange as a solution, this was a primary concern of ours. We devoted hundreds of hours designing, implementing, and refining a good test of our throughput. In the end, we over-tested. The throughputs that we dealt with in the test [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Informatica, Oracle by Shane