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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 – reading and writing matches files with flexibility


In this section, you will create a transformation very similar to the one you created in the previous section. In this case, however, you will interact with Spoon by telling it one-by-one which source files you want to send to the destination file:

  1. Create a new transformation.

  2. From the Input category of steps, drag to the work area a Get System Info step.

  3. Double-click the step and add a new line to the grid. Under Name type filename. As Type select command line argument 1, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Click on OK.

  5. Add a Calculator step and create a hop from the previous step toward this step.

  6. Double-click on the Calculator step and fill in the grid as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. Save the transformation.

  8. Select the Calculator step, and press F10 to run a preview. In the Transformation debug dialog, click on Configure.

  9. Fill in the Arguments grid by typing the name of one of your input files under the Value column....