What is ETL/ How does Oracle support the ETL process?
ETL is the Data Warehouse acquisition processes of Extracting, Transforming (or Transporting) and Loading (ETL) data from source systems into the data warehouse. Oracle supports the ETL process with their “Oracle Warehouse Builder” product. Many new features in the Oracle9i database will also make ETL processing easier. For example: * New MERGE command (also called UPSERT, Insert and update information in one step); * External Tables allows users to run SELECT statements on external data files (with pipelining support).