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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE

You're reading from   Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE An end-to-end guide to exploring, transforming, and integrating your data across multiple sources

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292436
Length 500 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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María Carina Roldán María Carina Roldán
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration 2. Getting Started with Transformations FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Basic Task Flows 4. Reading and Writing Files 5. Manipulating PDI Data and Metadata 6. Controlling the Flow of Data 7. Cleansing, Validating, and Fixing Data 8. Manipulating Data by Coding 9. Transforming the Dataset 10. Performing Basic Operations with Databases 11. Loading Data Marts with PDI 12. Creating Portable and Reusable Transformations 13. Implementing Metadata Injection 14. Creating Advanced Jobs 15. Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line 16. Best Practices for Designing and Deploying a PDI Project

Splitting streams unconditionally


Until now, you have been working with simple and straight flows of data. However, often the rows of your dataset have to take different paths and those simple flows are not enough. This situation can be handled very easily, and you will learn how to do it in this section.

For the exercises about splitting streams, we will use information from the Pentaho BI Platform Tracking site. So, before starting with the PDI subject, let's introduce the Tracking site. On this site, you can see the current Pentaho roadmap and browse its issue-tracking system.

The following instructions are for exporting the list of proposed new features for PDI from the site:

  1. Access the main Pentaho Tracking site page at http://jira.pentaho.com.

Note

At this point, you may want to create a user ID. Logging is not mandatory, but it is beneficial if you want to create new issues or vote or comment on existing ones.

  1. In the menu at the top of the screen, select Issues | Search for issues. A list...
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