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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide

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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle) is a full-featured open source ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) solution. Although PDI is a feature-rich tool, effectively capturing, manipulating, cleansing, transferring, and loading data can get complicated.This book is full of practical examples that will help you to take advantage of Pentaho Data Integration's graphical, drag-and-drop design environment. You will quickly get started with Pentaho Data Integration by following the step-by-step guidance in this book. The useful tips in this book will encourage you to exploit powerful features of Pentaho Data Integration and perform ETL operations with ease.Starting with the installation of the PDI software, this book will teach you all the key PDI concepts. Each chapter introduces new features, allowing you to gradually get involved with the tool. First, you will learn to work with plain files, and to do all kinds of data manipulation. Then, the book gives you a primer on databases and teaches you how to work with databases inside PDI. Not only that, you'll be given an introduction to data warehouse concepts and you will learn to load data in a data warehouse. After that, you will learn to implement simple and complex processes.Once you've learned all the basics, you will build a simple datamart that will serve to reinforce all the concepts learned through the book.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
The Kettle Project
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – running the examination transformation from a terminal window


Before executing the transformation from a terminal window, make sure that you have a new examination file to process, let's say exam3.txt. Then follow these instructions:

  1. Open a terminal window and go to the directory where Kettle is installed.

    • On Windows systems type:

      	C:\pdi-ce>pan.bat /file:c:\pdi_labs\examinations.ktr c:\pdi_files\input\exam3.txt
      
    • On Unix, Linux, and other Unix-based systems type:

      	/home/yourself/pdi-ce/pan.sh /file:/home/yourself/pdi_labs/examinations.ktr c:/pdi_files/input/exam3.txt
      
    • If your transformation is in another folder, modify the command accordingly.

  2. You will see how the transformation runs, showing you the log in the terminal.

  3. Check the output file. The contents of exam3.txt should be at the end of the file.

What just happened?

You executed a transformation with Pan, the program that runs transformations from terminal windows. As part of the command, you specified the name of...