Data Warehouse Extract Transform and Load.(Technology Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal, June, 2001 by Sweiger, Mark

Last month, we focused on Web server log file records. Now that we understand their format, we can explore the architecture of the extract, transform and load (ETL) process needed to get the data into a clickstream data warehouse. The distributed nature of Web page content makes clickstream ETL more of an around-the-world safari rather than a short trip to the data stored inside the back-office data center. Consider the architecture in Figure 1.

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The average Web page may contain content that is served-up by all the types of servers pictured in the figure. Let's go through them one-by-one, starting with the internal systems:

* Replicated Web Servers. These are your site's Web servers.

* Web Application Servers....

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