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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration is the premier open source ETL tool, providing easy, fast, and effective ways to move and transform data. While PDI is relatively easy to pick up, it can take time to learn the best practices so you can design your transformations to process data faster and more efficiently. If you are looking for clear and practical recipes that will advance your skills in Kettle, then this is the book for you. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition guides you through the features of explains the Kettle features in detail and provides easy to follow recipes on file management and databases that can throw a curve ball to even the most experienced developers. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition provides updates to the material covered in the first edition as well as new recipes that show you how to use some of the key features of PDI that have been released since the publication of the first edition. You will learn how to work with various data sources – from relational and NoSQL databases, flat files, XML files, and more. The book will also cover best practices that you can take advantage of immediately within your own solutions, like building reusable code, data quality, and plugins that can add even more functionality. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition will provide you with the recipes that cover the common pitfalls that even seasoned developers can find themselves facing. You will also learn how to use various data sources in Kettle as well as advanced features.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Introduction


As we have seen in earlier chapters, Kettle provides a lot of functionality out of the box, but there are a lot of great feedback mechanisms that have been added that can help make developing and working with data even easier. Being able to profile and visualize data streams allows for developers to gather feedback from customers to determine if they have met customer requirements. Some of these features are not provided directly in the tool, but are available as plugins. One of Kettle's most distinguishing features is the ability to create and add plugins directly into the tool.

In this chapter you will learn to work with plugins as well as work with some of the advanced capabilities that they provide.

Note

The plugin ecosystem is a vibrant and growing component of the Pentaho community. Plugins are sometimes picked up and made part of the core Kettle project. If you find that one of the plugins mentioned in the following recipes is already in your version of Kettle, don't be...