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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 – loading a table with a list of manufacturers


Suppose you love jigsaw puzzles and decided to open a store for selling them. You have made all the arrangements and the only missing thing is the software. You have already acquired a software to handle your business, but you still have one hard task to do—insert data into the database, that is, load the database with the basic information about the products you are about to sell.

As this is the first of several tutorials in which you will interact with that database, the first thing you have to do is to create the database.

Note

For MySQL-specific tasks such as the creation of a database, we will use the MySQL Query Browser, included in the MySQL GUI Tools software. If you don't have it or don't like it, you can accomplish the same tasks by using the MySQL Command Line Client or any other GUI Tool.

  1. From the Packt website, download the script file js.sql.

  2. Launch the MySQL Query Browser.

  3. A dialog window appears asking you for the...