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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : María Carina Roldán
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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

By: María Carina Roldán

Overview of this book

Capturing, manipulating, cleansing, transferring, and loading data effectively are the prime requirements in every IT organization. Achieving these tasks require people devoted to developing extensive software programs, or investing in ETL or data integration tools that can simplify this work. Pentaho Data Integration is a full-featured open source ETL solution that allows you to meet these requirements. Pentaho Data Integration has an intuitive, graphical, drag-and-drop design environment and its ETL capabilities are powerful. However, getting started with Pentaho Data Integration can be difficult or confusing. "Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition" provides the guidance needed to overcome that difficulty, covering all the possible key features of Pentaho Data Integration. "Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition" starts with the installation of Pentaho Data Integration software and then moves on to cover all the key Pentaho Data Integration concepts. Each chapter introduces new features, allowing you to gradually get involved with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kinds of data manipulation and work with plain files. Then, the book gives you a primer on databases and teaches you how to work with databases inside Pentaho Data Integration. Moreover, you will be introduced to data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. After that, you will learn to implement simple and complex processes. Finally, you will have the opportunity of applying and reinforcing all the learned concepts through the implementation of a simple datamart. With "Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition", you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Best Practices
Index

Time for action – loading a table with a list of manufacturers


Let's suppose that you love jigsaw puzzles and decided to open a store for selling all kinds of them. You have made all the arrangements and the only missing thing is the software. You have already acquired software to handle your business but you still have a hard task of adding data into the database, that is, loading the basic information about the products you are about to sell in the database.

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

Note

For MySQL-specific tasks—for example, the creation of a database—we will use SQuirreL SQL Client . If you use this tool, make sure you have added a driver for MySQL. For assistance, you can follow this link http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/user-manual/quick_start.html. Alternatively, you can do this task using the MySQL Command Line Client or any other GUI tool.

  1. Download the js.sql...