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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 – using a Database lookup step to create a list of products to buy


Suppose you have an online system for your customers to order products. On a daily basis, the system creates a file with the orders information. Now you will check if you have stock for the ordered products and make a list of the products you'll have to buy.

  1. Create a new transformation.

  2. From the Input category of steps, drag a Get data from XML step to the canvas.

  3. Use it to read the orders.xml file. In the Content tab, fill the Loop XPath option with the /orders/order string. In the Fields tab get the fields.

  4. Do a preview. You will see the following:

    Note

    To keep this exercise simple, the file contains a single product by order.

  5. Add a Sort rows step and use it to sort the data by man_code, prod_code.

  6. Add a Group by step and double-click it.

  7. Use the upper grid for grouping by man_code and prod_code.

  8. Use the lower grid for adding a field with the number of orders in each group. As Name write quantity, as Subject ordernumber...