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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

Reading an Excel file


Kettle provides the Excel input step, in order to read data from Excel files. In this recipe, you will use this step to read an Excel file regarding museums in Italy. The file has a sheet with one column for the name of the museum and other for the city where it is located. The data starts in the C3 cell (as shown in the screenshot in the next section).

Getting ready

For this example, you need an Excel file named museumsItaly.xls with a museums sheet, as shown in the following screenshot:

You can download a sample file from the book's site.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

  1. Create a new transformation.

  2. Drop an Excel input step from the Input category.

  3. Under the Files tab, browse to the museumsItaly.xls file and click on the Add button. This will cause the name of the file to be moved to the grid below.

  4. Under the Sheet tab, fill in the first row as follows: type museums in the Sheet name column, 2 in the Start row, and 2 in the Start column.

    Note

    The rows and columns...

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