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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 – deleting data about discontinued items


Suppose a manufacturer informs you about the categories of products that will no longer be available. You don't want to have those products in your database that you will not sell. So you use PDI to delete them.

  1. Open the LUX_discontinued.txt file available in the code bundle.

  2. Create a new transformation.

  3. With a Text file input step, read the file. As Number of header lines, type 4. Add a single field of type String and name it category.

  4. Preview the file. You will see the following:

  5. After the Text file input step, add an Add constants step to add a String constant named man_code with value LUX.

  6. Expand the Output category of steps and drag a Delete step to the canvas.

  7. Create a hop from the Add constants step to the Delete step.

  8. Double-click on the Delete step. As Connection, select js. As Target table, browse and select products. In the grid, add the conditions man_code = man_code and pro_theme LIKE category. After the Delete step, add a Write...