Chapter 1: Using This Manual

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Purpose

This manual explains how to use SAS ETL Studio to do the following tasks:

• specify metadata for data sources, such as tables in an operational system

• specify metadata for data targets, such as tables in a data warehouse

• create jobs that specify how data is extracted, transformed, and loaded from sources to targets.

This manual also summarizes how to set up servers, libraries, and other resources that SAS ETL Studio requires. A data warehouse for a fictional company, Orion Star Sports & Outdoors, is used to illustrate these tasks.

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