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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration is the premier open source ETL tool, providing easy, fast, and effective ways to move and transform data. While PDI is relatively easy to pick up, it can take time to learn the best practices so you can design your transformations to process data faster and more efficiently. If you are looking for clear and practical recipes that will advance your skills in Kettle, then this is the book for you. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition guides you through the features of explains the Kettle features in detail and provides easy to follow recipes on file management and databases that can throw a curve ball to even the most experienced developers. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition provides updates to the material covered in the first edition as well as new recipes that show you how to use some of the key features of PDI that have been released since the publication of the first edition. You will learn how to work with various data sources – from relational and NoSQL databases, flat files, XML files, and more. The book will also cover best practices that you can take advantage of immediately within your own solutions, like building reusable code, data quality, and plugins that can add even more functionality. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition will provide you with the recipes that cover the common pitfalls that even seasoned developers can find themselves facing. You will also learn how to use various data sources in Kettle as well as advanced features.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Processing rows differently based on the row number


There will be some situations where you will need to process the data differently depending on the position or number of each row.

Let's assume that you have a bookstore and want to know the top five bestsellers books, the following 10 bestsellers, and the rest of the books for different purposes (for example, to do a differentiated marketing promotion for each group). To do this, you will divide the list of books into different groups depending on their sales.

Getting ready

You need an Excel spreadsheet file containing a list of books with the following columns:

  • title

  • id_author

  • price

  • id_title

  • genre

  • sales

This last column represents the quantity of books sold in the last period. You can download a sample file from the book's website.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new transformation and drag an Excel Input step from the Input category.

  2. Under the Files tab, browse to and select the sales_books.xls file.

  3. Complete the Fields tab with...