No jokes here. This is serious. The tool is already chosen -- the client wants Shell/Perl (I am the one who is whispering "shell" and raising my volume when saying "Perl").

Fortunately, there are resources available to gather the metadata, do an assessment, study all the existing data flows, sources, transformation, and target. So, I do have some say in determining the effort. It is hard though, to try and guesstimate how much time a particular task will take, so all my numbers right now are very SWAG-ish.

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when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed

In reply to Re^2: Automating data loading into Oracle by punkish
in thread Automating data loading into Oracle by punkish

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