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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

Books data structure


The Books database is a simple structure that holds details on a sample list of books and their authors. The recipes that use the Books database are based on you being part of a fictitious book store. In the following diagram, you can see the relationship between the authors' and books' tables, where a single author can have many books:

Books

The Books table stores the following details for each book:

Field

Description

Example

id_title

Identification for the book. It is a string with the format CCC-CCC (3 characters, a hyphen, and 3 more characters).

123-456

title

Title of the book.

The Tommyknockers

id_author

Identification for the author of a book; it references to the authors' data.

A00002

price

Price for the book. It's a decimal value.

39.00

genre

Genre of the books.

Fiction

Possible values are: Fiction, Non-fiction, Business or Children

Authors

The Authors table stores the following details for each author:

Field

Description

Example

id_author

Identification for the author

A00002

lastname

Author's last name

King

firstname

Author's first name

Stephen

nationality

Author's nationality

American

birthyear

Year of author's birth. It's a numeric value.

1947