Re: Trying to find a low-cost program for Data migration and ETL

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Rstat <tom(dot)ruster(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> Hi, Im building a database for my company. We are a rather small size book
> company with a lot of references and still growing.
>
> We have a Mysql database here and are trying to find some good tools to use
> it at its best. Basically we are just starting up the database after
> dealing
> with Excel: we had a size problem… So im trying to find a program that will
> allow us to do two different things: the migration of our data from the old
> system to the new one and a specialized software to perform ETL (Extract,
> transform and load) on our database.
>
> About the price of the tools, if we were one year ago, the accounting
> department would have been pretty relaxed about this. But today, we have
> some budget restrictions and therefore need a low cost tool. So could you
> give me some advice on a good data migration and etl tool for a low cost?
>
> Thanks for your help.

You may have some luck by viewing a similar thread on another mailing list:

http://www.theserverside.net/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=54755

-- Scott