Building an ELT Pipeline in Python and Snowflake

Extracting, Loading and Transforming Data

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ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) are two processes used for integrating and transforming data, but they have different approaches. Think of it like cooking a meal — ETL is like preparing and chopping all the ingredients before cooking, while ELT is like cooking the ingredients…