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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from   Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition Get up and running with the Pentaho Data Integration tool using this hands-on, easy-to-read guide with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782165040
Length 502 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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María Carina Roldán María Carina Roldán
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration 2. Getting Started with Transformations FREE CHAPTER 3. Manipulating Real-world Data 4. Filtering, Searching, and Performing Other Useful Operations with Data 5. Controlling the Flow of Data 6. Transforming Your Data by Coding 7. Transforming the Rowset 8. Working with Databases 9. Performing Advanced Operations with Databases 10. Creating Basic Task Flows 11. Creating Advanced Transformations and Jobs 12. Developing and Implementing a Simple Datamart A. Working with Repositories B. Pan and Kitchen – Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line C. Quick Reference – Steps and Job Entries D. Spoon Shortcuts E. Introducing PDI 5 Features F. Best Practices G. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – loading a table with a list of manufacturers


Let's suppose that you love jigsaw puzzles and decided to open a store for selling all kinds of them. You have made all the arrangements and the only missing thing is the software. You have already acquired software to handle your business but you still have a hard task of adding data into the database, that is, loading the basic information about the products you are about to sell in the database.

As this is the first of several tutorials in which you will interact with this database, the first task you have to do is to create the database.

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For MySQL-specific tasks—for example, the creation of a database—we will use SQuirreL SQL Client . If you use this tool, make sure you have added a driver for MySQL. For assistance, you can follow this link http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/user-manual/quick_start.html. Alternatively, you can do this task using the MySQL Command Line Client or any other GUI tool.

  1. Download the js.sql...

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