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Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

By : Carina Roldán
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Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

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By: Carina Roldán

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag and drop design and powerful Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capabilities. Given its power and flexibility, initial attempts to use the Pentaho Data Integration tool can be difficult or confusing. This book is the ideal solution. This book reduces your learning curve with PDI. It provides the guidance needed to make you productive, covering the main features of Pentaho Data Integration. It demonstrates the interactive features of the graphical designer, and takes you through the main ETL capabilities that the tool offers. By the end of the book, you will be able to use PDI for extracting, transforming, and loading the types of data you encounter on a daily basis.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Designing, previewing, and running transformations

In this section, we will create a transformation that is a bit more interesting than the one you already built. In doing this, you will have a chance to learn about the process of designing transformations, while also previewing your work.

The task is as follows: you will be given a file with a list of cities in the USA, along with their zip codes and their state names. You will have to generate a file containing only the cities in the state of NY, sorted by zip code. We will split the task into the following steps:

  • Designing and previewing the transformation
  • Learning to deal with errors that may appear
  • Saving and running the transformation

Designing and previewing a transformation

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