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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 – populating the Jigsaw database


To load data massively into your Jigsaw database, you must have the Jigsaw database created and the MySQL server running. You already know how to do this. If not, please refer to Chapter 1 for the installation of MySQL and Chapter 8 for the creation of the Jigsaw database.

Note

This tutorial will overwrite all your data in the js database. If you don't want to overwrite the data in your js database, you could simply create a new database with a different name and run the js.sql script to create the tables in your new database.

After checking that everything is in order, follow these instructions:

  1. From Packt's website download the js_data.sql script file.

  2. Launch the MySQL query browser.

  3. From the File menu select Open Script....

  4. Locate the downloaded file and open it.

  5. At the beginning of the script file you will see this line:

    USE js;

    If you created a new database, replace the name js by the name of your new database.

  6. Click on the Execute button.

  7. At the...