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by nojito 1489 days ago
Using a data warehouse as a processing engine is one of the dumbest things to come out of the data world.

ELT is genius marketing though!
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dominotw 1489 days ago
why is it dumb?
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nojito 1488 days ago
Allows providers to double and triple bill a user when under ETL they would only charged once.
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dominotw 1488 days ago
not sure i follow this. Why wouldn't you pay more if you are doing more inside the warehouse. Also setting up systems to run places for pre wh transform isn't free.
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