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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) has an intuitive design environment with powerful ETL capabilities. However, getting started with the tool can be difficult. This book provides the necessary guidance needed to overcome this, bringing together all the new features of Pentaho 8 Data Integration for quick, actionable insights from your data.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

16h40m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is a must-have for software developers, business intelligence analysts, IT students, or anyone involved or interested in developing ETL solutions. If you plan on using Pentaho Data Integration for doing any data manipulation task, this book will help you as well. This book is also a good starting point for data warehouse designers, architects, or anyone who is responsible for data warehouse projects and needs to load data into them.

Book content

chapters 16h40m total length

Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration

Getting Started with Transformations

Creating Basic Task Flows

Reading and writing files

Manipulating PDI Data and Metadata

Controlling the Flow of Data

Validating, Fixing and Cleansing data

Transforming the Data by Coding

Transforming the Dataset

Performing Basic Operations with Databases

Loading datamarts with PDI

Creating Portable and Reusable Transformations

Implementing Metadata Injection

Creating Advanced Jobs

Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line

Best Practices for Designing and Deploying a PDI Project

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