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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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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

Designing and running jobs


The previous section introduced you to the basics about jobs. In this section, you will have the opportunity to become more familiar with the design process of a Job.

Revisiting the Spoon interface and the editing features

You already know how to use Spoon for designing and running transformations. As you must have noticed, there are a lot of similarities when it's time to design and create a Job. Let's explain how Spoon looks like when you work with jobs:

Spoon interface

The following table describes the main differences you will notice while designing a Job, as compared to designing a Transformation:

Area

Description

Design tree

You don't see a list of steps but a list of Job entries.

Job toolbar

You no longer see some options that only make sense while working with datasets. One of them is the Preview button. It makes no sense to preview data in jobs.

Job metrics tab

(Execution results window)

Instead of Step Metrics, you have this tab. Here you can see metrics for each...

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