15. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the computer usable program code for processing a set of records using the configured process, wherein the configured process places data corresponding to each attribute in the subset of attributes for the type of event from the set of records into a table to form the normalized data further comprises: computer usable program code for decompressing the set of records.
9. A computer program product comprising: a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for executing creating normalized data from markup language data, the computer program medium comprising: computer usable program code for receiving user defined parameters for retrieving event data, wherein the parameters define a type of event and a subset of attributes for the type of event; computer usable program code, responsive to receiving the parameters, for configuring a process using the type of event and the subset of attributes for the type of event to form a configured process; and computer usable program code for processing a set of records using the configured process, wherein the configured process places data corresponding to each attribute in the subset of attributes for the type of event from the set of records into a table to form the normalized data.