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Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

By : María Carina Roldán
Book Image

Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

By: María 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 (15 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to send data to files (specifically, plain files and spreadsheets). Then, you learned how to perform insert and update operations on relational databases. You also learned how to handle any errors that may occur. Finally, you were briefly introduced to using PDI to load datamarts, including time dimensions, other kinds of dimensions, and fact tables.

You already have the basic knowledge required for dealing with data in PDI. In the next chapter, you will learn how to orchestrate all of your work, including the work you have done so far, through the use of PDI jobs.