Which of the following describes ETL?

Question

a. A process that transforms information using a common set of enterprise definitions
b. A process that extracts information from internal and external databases
c. A process that loads information into a data warehouse
d. all of the above

Answer 1

The correct answer: all of the above

ETL is an acronym for three database functions extract, transform, load that is combined into one tool to extract the data from a database and load it into another database.

• Extract is the process of reading data from internal and external databases
• Transform is the process of converting the extracted data into the form required form.
• Load is the process of loads information into the target database.

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