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Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide

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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789343328

Pages 178 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Business Intelligence

Author (1):

María Carina Roldán

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Getting Started with PDI

2. Getting Familiar with Spoon

3. Extracting Data

4. Transforming Data

5. Loading Data

6. Orchestrating Your Work

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Index

Getting data from relational databases

Relational databases are some of the most common sources of data in any ETL process. PDI enables you to connect and get data from multiple RDBMS engines, including the most popular (for example, Oracle or MySQL) but also other engines. The only prerequisite is that there exists the proper JDBC driver. In this section, you will learn how to connect to, explore, and get data from a database.

Connecting to a database and using the database explorer

There are two things that you must do in order to connect to a database, if you intend to use its data inside PDI:

Install the proper JDBC driver
Create a connection to the database

Note

For demonstration purposes, we will connect to a PostgreSQL engine where we have installed a sports database, available for download at http://www.sportsdb.org/sd that you have a JDBC drive/samples.

Make sure that you have a JDBC driver, a .jar file – for the engine. Once you have it, you will have to copy it into the lib folder in...

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Authors (1)

María Carina Roldán

María Carina Roldán was born in Argentina and has a bachelor's degree in computer science. She started working with Pentaho back in 2006. She spent all these years developing BI solutions, mainly as an ETL specialist, and working for different companies around the world. Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires and works as an independent consultant. Carina is the author of Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE, published by Packt in December 2017. She has also authored other books on Pentaho, all of them published by Packt.

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