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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

By : Adrian Sergio Pulvirenti
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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

4.8 (8)
By: Adrian Sergio Pulvirenti

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is broadly used for all kind of data manipulation such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do you need quick solutions to the problems you face while using Kettle? Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook explains Kettle features in detail through clear and practical recipes that you can quickly apply to your solutions. The recipes cover a broad range of topics including processing files, working with databases, understanding XML structures, integrating with Pentaho BI Suite, and more. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook shows you how to take advantage of all the aspects of Kettle through a set of practical recipes organized to find quick solutions to your needs. The initial chapters explain the details about working with databases, files, and XML structures. Then you will see different ways for searching data, executing and reusing jobs and transformations, and manipulating streams. Further, you will learn all the available options for integrating Kettle with other Pentaho tools. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook has plenty of recipes with easy step-by-step instructions to accomplish specific tasks. There are examples and code that are ready for adaptation to individual needs.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Index

Introduction


On many occasions, the development of Kettle jobs and transformations involves manipulation of files, such as reading or writing a file along with other manipulations. Look at this sample scenario, where you have to:

  • Get a file with orders from a remote server

  • Validate and load the orders into a database

  • Move the processed file to a designated folder

  • If a file with that name already exists, rename the older version

  • If the orders in the file are not valid, generate a log file with details of the errors and put that log file back on to the server for further review

In this situation besides reading and writing files, you also have to transfer, rename, and move them.

Copying, moving, deleting, and transferring files, list of files or directories are tasks not only needed for these situations, but in everyday life. It's common to have lot of files, which need to be organized in several ways, and for different purposes.

Kettle has a rich set of steps and job entries for doing this. However...

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