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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide

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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle) is a full-featured open source ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) solution. Although PDI is a feature-rich tool, effectively capturing, manipulating, cleansing, transferring, and loading data can get complicated.This book is full of practical examples that will help you to take advantage of Pentaho Data Integration's graphical, drag-and-drop design environment. You will quickly get started with Pentaho Data Integration by following the step-by-step guidance in this book. The useful tips in this book will encourage you to exploit powerful features of Pentaho Data Integration and perform ETL operations with ease.Starting with the installation of the PDI software, this book will teach you all the key PDI concepts. Each chapter introduces new features, allowing you to gradually get involved with the tool. First, you will learn to work with plain files, and to do all kinds of data manipulation. Then, the book gives you a primer on databases and teaches you how to work with databases inside PDI. Not only that, you'll be given an introduction to data warehouse concepts and you will learn to load data in a data warehouse. After that, you will learn to implement simple and complex processes.Once you've learned all the basics, you will build a simple datamart that will serve to reinforce all the concepts learned through the book.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
The Kettle Project
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – keeping a history of product changes with the Dimension lookup/update step


Let's load a puzzles dimension along with the history of the changes in puzzle attributes:

  1. Create a new transformation.

  2. Drag a Table input step to the work area and double-click it.

  3. Select js as Connection.

  4. Type the following query in the SQL area:

    SELECT pro_code
         , man_code
         , pro_name
         , pro_theme
    FROM  products
    WHERE pro_type LIKE 'PUZZLE'
  5. Click on OK.

  6. Add an Add constants step, and create a hop from the Table input, step toward it.

  7. Use the step to add a Date field named changedate. As Format type dd/MM/yyyy, and as Value, type 01/10/2009.

  8. Expand the Data Warehouse category of steps.

  9. Select the Dimension lookup/update step and drag it to the canvas.

  10. Create a hop from the Add constants step to this new step.

  11. Double-click the Dimension lookup/update step.

  12. As Connection select dw.

  13. As Target table type lk_puzzles.

  14. Fill the Key fields as shown:

  15. Select id as Technical key field.

  16. In the frame Creation...