Not really. It is more of a class of programs. Much like the mapreduce family of things. But yeah, it's often a GUI to what you used to do with a select, some

Not really. It is more of a class of programs. Much like the mapreduce family of things. But yeah, it's often a GUI to what you used to do with a select, some regexes, and a bcp. I seem to recall ab initio being a popular product in this space. (bcp? sybase or SQL server victim?)