Summary

This chapter served to help you get used to Spoon, the PDI graphical designer. First, you learned how to work with the tool when you created, previewed, and ran transformations. When you worked with transformations, you had the opportunity to use Kettle variables, both predefined and user defined. You also learned how to deal with common errors. Finally, you experimented with the Pan utility, which is used for running transformations from the command line.

Now that you have seen an overview of the tool, you're ready to get into the details of extracting data. That will be the subject of Chapter 3, Extracting Data.