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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : María Carina Roldán
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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

By: María Carina Roldán

Overview of this book

Capturing, manipulating, cleansing, transferring, and loading data effectively are the prime requirements in every IT organization. Achieving these tasks require people devoted to developing extensive software programs, or investing in ETL or data integration tools that can simplify this work. Pentaho Data Integration is a full-featured open source ETL solution that allows you to meet these requirements. Pentaho Data Integration has an intuitive, graphical, drag-and-drop design environment and its ETL capabilities are powerful. However, getting started with Pentaho Data Integration can be difficult or confusing. "Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition" provides the guidance needed to overcome that difficulty, covering all the possible key features of Pentaho Data Integration. "Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition" starts with the installation of Pentaho Data Integration software and then moves on to cover all the key Pentaho Data Integration concepts. Each chapter introduces new features, allowing you to gradually get involved with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kinds of data manipulation and work with plain files. Then, the book gives you a primer on databases and teaches you how to work with databases inside Pentaho Data Integration. Moreover, you will be introduced to data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. After that, you will learn to implement simple and complex processes. Finally, you will have the opportunity of applying and reinforcing all the learned concepts through the implementation of a simple datamart. With "Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition", you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Best Practices
Index

Time for action – creating a folder with a Kettle job


In this tutorial, you will create a very simple job, so that you can get an idea of what jobs are about:

  1. Open Spoon.

  2. Navigate to File | New | Job or press Ctrl+Alt+N. A new job is created.

  3. Press Ctrl + J. The Job properties window appears. Give the job a name and description as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Press Ctrl + S to save the job.

  5. To the left of the screen, there is a tree with job entries. Expand the General category of job entries, select the START entry, and drag it to the work area, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Expand the File management category, select the Create a folder entry, and drag it to the canvas.

  7. Select both entries. With the mouse cursor over the second entry, right-click and select New hop. A new hop is created.

    Tip

    Just like in a transformation, you have several ways to create hops. For more detail, please refer to the Time for Action – creating a hello world transformation section in Chapter 1,...