I retagged this (closed) question with assuming the tag should
cover all (non-SQL) aspects of getting all sorts of data into an
RDBMS.  There is also this question—the only one tagged which I
suggest we retag . However perhaps I'm interpreting ETL too
broadly and we should restrict to the specialised sense of Data
Warehousing?  I only know that when I hear or use the word ETL,
I mean the narrower sense. This may be my fault, of course :) – 
dezso Nov 12 '12 at 10:28 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 10 down
vote accepted  You can certainly use an ETL tool to populate
something that isn't a data warehouse - for example I'm
currently working on a process that de-duplicates data and
populates a CRM system. I'd call it an ETL process. Looks like a
duck, quacks like a duck.  However in the case of the question
that the OP is referring to, the task the poster seems to be
trying to achieve might be better described as than .  I'd say
belongs on processing with significant 'E' and 'T' (extraction
and transformation) com