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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

You're reading from   Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook Over 70 recipes to solve ETL problems using Pentaho Kettle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515245
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Working with Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. Reading and Writing Files 3. Manipulating XML Structures 4. File Management 5. Looking for Data 6. Understanding Data Flows 7. Executing and Reusing Jobs and Transformations 8. Integrating Kettle and the Pentaho Suite 9. Getting the Most Out of Kettle Data Structures Index

Chapter 2. Reading and Writing Files

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Reading a simple file

  • Reading several files at the same time

  • Reading unstructured files

  • Reading files having one field by row

  • Reading files having some fields occupying two or more rows

  • Writing a simple file

  • Writing an unstructured file

  • Providing the name of a file (for reading or writing) dynamically

  • Using the name of a file (or part of it) as a field

  • Reading an Excel file

  • Getting the value of specific cells in an Excel file

  • Writing an Excel file with several sheets

  • Writing an Excel file with a dynamic number of sheets

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