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sandip81
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Preety new for ds exchange froum as well as for datastage. I am working on production support and developer trying to assign me new project. They are asking me estimate time for data load from one server to another server trhough ETL. We do have 2 .txt generic file and size is around 300 byte. How do i give them estimate time and what are the process i have to tell them.

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Post by ray.wurlod »

You ask them how long is a piece of string, enumerate maybe half a dozen of the variable factors, then get them to do one. That's the best estimate of elapsed time you're going to get.

The DataStage Resource Estimation tool will estimate resources required, but not elapsed time.
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