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Re:ELT your data with PlanetScale Connect by nojito on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:09PM (#31509111)
Using a data warehouse as a processing engine is one of the dumbest things to come out of the data world.

ELT is genius marketing though!

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Re:ELT your data with PlanetScale Connect by dominotw on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:20PM (#31509261)
why is it dumb?
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Re:ELT your data with PlanetScale Connect by nojito on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:03AM (#31518459)
Allows providers to double and triple bill a user when under ETL they would only charged once.
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Re:ELT your data with PlanetScale Connect by dominotw on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:49PM (#31522033)
not sure i follow this. Why wouldn't you pay more if you are doing more inside the warehouse. Also setting up systems to run places for pre wh transform isn't free.
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