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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 join step to create a list of suggested products to buy


If your customers ordered a product that is out of stock and you don't want to let them down, you will suggest them some alternative puzzles to buy.

  1. Open the transformation of the previous tutorial and save it under a new name.

  2. Delete the Text file output step.

  3. Double-click the Group by step and add an aggregated field named customers with the list of customers separated by (,). Under Subject, select idcus and as Type, select Concatenate strings separated by ,.

  4. Double-click the Database lookup step. In the Values to return from the lookup table grid, add pro_theme as value in the String field.

  5. Add a Select values step. Use it to select the fields customers, quantity, pro_theme, and pro_name. Also rename quantity as quantity_param and pro_theme as theme_param. From the Lookup category, drag a Database join step to the canvas. Create a hop from the Select values step to this step.

  6. Double-click the Database...