My partner in crime has done a lot of warehousing/data migration work, both with perl and with Informatica. He's also been placed in a similar position, where Informatica was essentially mandated as the tool to use. His comments have always been that Informatica can't touch a decent perl program.

I've also worked on a few large migrations, and I know that te only way to get those to work right (and be fast enough) was to use perl - there are always a ton of exceptions, and handling these with an integrated tool is non-trivial.

If I were in your shoes I'd try to show that I can do the same job in less time, and with a system that is easier to maintain.

Michael

In reply to Re: Perl and Informatica, or, Applications, like curves, may be open, closed, both, or neither by mpeppler
in thread Perl and Informatica, or, Applications, like curves, may be open, closed, both, or neither by adamsj

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