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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) capabilities. This book shows and explains the new interactive features of Spoon, the revamped look and feel, and the newest features of the tool including transformations and jobs Executors and the invaluable Metadata Injection capability. We begin with the installation of PDI software and then move on to cover all the key PDI concepts. Each of the chapter introduces new features, enabling you to gradually get practicing with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kind of data manipulation and work with simple plain files. Then, the book teaches you how you can work with relational databases inside PDI. Moreover, you will be given a primer on data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. During the course of this book, you will be familiarized with its intuitive, graphical and drag-and-drop design environment. By the end of this book, you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements. Besides, your will be given best practices and advises for designing and deploying your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Summary


This chapter discussed how to use PDI to work with relational databases. You learned how to create connections from PDI to different database engines and to explore databases with the PDI Database Explorer. Then, you learned how to perform insert, update and delete operations on databases. 

You also learned to search for data on databases. First, you were introduced to the simplest way to search by using the Database lookup step. As that step has limitations, you were also introduced to other options that PDI offers for performing more complex lookups.

Finally, you also performed useful tasks such as checking a connection, verifying the existence of a table, running some DDLs, and more. In the next chapter, you will continue working with databases. Specifically, you will learn how to load a data mart.