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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

Managing plugins with the Marketplace


Before you can work with all the nifty new features and capabilities that plugins can provide, you have to be able to manage them! In this recipe we will cover how to install and remove plugins through the Marketplace.

Note

The Marketplace is a new feature to Kettle 5. Earlier versions of Kettle require the manual addition and removal of plugins. All plugins can be found in the plugins directory where Kettle is installed.

Getting ready

For this recipe we will require an Internet connection so that Kettle can connect to the Marketplace and retrieve the plugin we are installing.

How to do it...

Follow the given steps to install a plugin:

  1. Open Spoon and click on the Help menu and select Marketplace.

  2. The Marketplace menu will open. Select the DataCleaner Data Profiling for Kettle version 5 or higher plugin.

  3. Read through the package details. Each plugin should provide details of the author, the location of the plugin, and so on.

  4. Click on the Install this Plugin button...