Before today, I have written many articles that were concentrated on one topic in SQL Server or Perl or Visual Basic. Starting today, I am going to kick off a full blown development exercise named PROJECT ALPHA. The purpose of this project is to create a test environment for developing a PERL based Extract Translate and Load (ETL) solution. The following is a list of business requirements for this ETL project. A runnng trace file will be created in the LOGS directory. Connect to an FTP server using basic authentication.…