> systems are going from ETL to ELT Interesting. I did this for medical records, mid-aughts. The phrase I used was "transform & translate at the last possible

> systems are going from ETL to ELT Interesting. I did this for medical records, mid-aughts. The phrase I used was "transform & translate at the last possible moment". Ideally in the reporting step (server side rendering the HTML). Since all of our customers kept changing their minds, totally their prerogative, my strategy minimized cost of change and turnaround time. Prior products would have to "rerun the data" from scratch, for schema changes. We'd make the same query tweaks, but at the end instead of the beginning of the pipeline. (Hardest part was always nailing down the requirements, expectations. Then the code basically wrote itself.) This strategy made people's heads explode. Old schoolers just couldn't abide by it. Despite our small team running circles around everyone else. Data must be normalized! All the same! We had to be cheating somehow. They did everything possible to destroy us, and eventually succeeded.