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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 – loading a region dimension with a Combination lookup/update step


In this tutorial you will load a dimension that stores geographical information.

  1. Launch Spoon.

  2. Create a new transformation.

  3. Drag a Table input step to the canvas and double-click it.

  4. As connection select js.

  5. In the SQL area type the following query:

    SELECT ci.city_id, city_name, country_name
    FROM cities ci, countries co
    WHERE ci.cou_id = co.cou_id
  6. Click on OK.

  7. Expand the Data Warehouse category of steps.

  8. Select the Combination lookup/update step and drag it to the canvas.

  9. Create a hop from the Table input step to this new step.

  10. Double-click the Combination lookup/update step.

  11. As Connection select dw.

  12. As Target table browse and select lk_regions or simply type it.

  13. Enter id as Technical key field and lastupdate as Date of last update field.

  14. Click OK.

  15. After the Combination lookup/update step, add an Update step.

  16. Double-click the Update step.

  17. Select dw as Connection and lk_regions as Target table.

  18. Fill the upper grid adding the...