Re: [OT?] ETL tools

On Aug 24, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:

> 2005/8/24, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>:
>
>> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:50, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
>>
>>> Googling a bit I have discovered that what I probably need is an ETL
>>> (extract, transform and load) tool, preferably open sourced and very
>>> PostgreSQL friendly... does anybody on this list have experience
>>> with
>>> such kind of tools? Would anybody recommend anything? Maybe I could
>>> try another approach?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You might want to take a look at kettle, which is part of the
>> bizgres package.
>> I haven't used it but it seemed pretty flexible when I saw the
>> demo at oscon,
>> and there certainly pg friendly.
>> http://www.bizgres.org/pages.php?pg=downloads
>>
>
> I knew about that, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any
> version for Windows (I develop in Windows :o( ) and I neither have
> find anywhere to download just the ketl tool instead of the whole
> bizgres server... if I don't find anything else I may try to download
> the Linux version and give it a try...

I'm pretty sure that the ketl tool is written in Java, so it should
run on Windows.  Just download the source tarball, it's in there, you
don't have to install everything.

-bob