Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Extract from database or from users? There’s really no difference…

Whether your're writing a package to pull data from a database, or a web form to collect data from users, you're doing the same thing: getting the data. This is all part of the "E" in ETL (extract, transform, load).

I wrote last week about the similarities between SSIS and Windows Workflow Foundation; they're really similar in my opinion.

When I'm working now, I'm starting to "bucket" data collection tasks (be they user-facing forms or databases) into the same category. I think this is helping things out, architecturally.

What are your experiences with this?

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