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Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This book probably saved me at least a Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Incredibly informative and useful. This book probably saved me at least a hours of ramp up time. This book does not teach the basics of using Kettle.
It's a collection of best practices for accomplishing things with Kettle or Pentaho Data Integration, it's commercial cousin. Kettle itself is intuitive enough to learn, so this book could serve as a good resource even for Kettle novices. They'll have to self-study other materials, perhaps the product documentation, to get off the ground.
Once a basic level of expertise is obtained, the patterns and practices given in this book will be of use. Use cases for common scenarios are well represented. How to read data from a database, dealing with fixed format and comma delimited files, working with XML, consuming a web service, generating reports. These were all expected so no extra credit for these topics, though it's nice to have them all documented in one place for future reference.

There are also quite a few recipes given for things I'd never before encountered like parsing of unstructured files i. These topics were pleasant surprises to find, I can imagine practical uses for many of them.
If you have a need for integration work and don't enjoy a lot of low-level coding, you probably owe it to yourself to try Kettle or another ETL product. Reading and Writing Files. Reading files with some fields occupying two or more rows. Providing the name of a file for reading or writing dynamically. Looking for values in a database with complex conditions or multiple tables involved.
Looking for values in a database with extreme flexibility. Splitting a stream into two or more streams based on a condition. Merging rows of two streams with the same or different structures. Generating all possible pairs formed from two datasets. Executing and Reusing Jobs and Transformations. Executing a job or a transformation by setting static arguments and parameters. Executing a job or a transformation from a job by setting arguments and parameters dynamically.
Executing a job or a transformation whose name is determined at runtime. Executing part of a job once for every row in a dataset. Executing part of a job several times until a condition is true. Moving part of a transformation to a subtransformation.
Over the last few years he has been leading integration projects and the development of BI solutions. A t tachments 0 Page History. See all 8 reviews. Fast paced, concentrated introductions showing the quickest way to put the tool to work in the real world. This book probably saved me at least a hours of ramp up time. Get to Know Us.
Integrating Kettle and the Pentaho Suite. Executing a PDI transformation as part of a Pentaho process. Getting the Most Out of Kettle. Getting information about transformations and jobs file-based. Getting information about transformations and jobs repository-based. What You Will Learn Configure Kettle to connect to databases, explore them, and perform CRUD operations Read, write, and parse simple and unstructured files Solve common Excel needs such as reading from a particular cell or generating several sheets at a time Read, validate, and generate simple and complex XML structures Manipulate files by copying, deleting, compressing, or transferring to remote servers Look up information from different sources such as databases, web services, or spreadsheets among others Work with data flows performing operations such as joining, merging, or filtering rows Customize the Kettle logs to your needs Embed Java code in your transformations to gain performance and flexibility Execute and reuse transformations and jobs in different ways Integrate Kettle with Pentaho Reporting, Pentaho Dashboards, Community Data Access, and Pentaho BI Platform.
He has dedicated more than 15 years to developing desktop and web-based software solutions. Over the last few years he has been leading integration projects and development of BI solutions. Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires and works as an independent consultant. OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials. Version Control for Everyone.
View our Cookie Policy. How to read data from a database, dealing with fixed format and comma delimited files, working with XML, consuming a web service, generating reports. These were all expected so no extra credit for these topics, though it's nice to have them all documented in one place for future reference. There are also quite a few recipes given for things I'd never before encountered like parsing of unstructured files i.
These topics were pleasant surprises to find, I can imagine practical uses for many of them. If you have a need for integration work and don't enjoy a lot of low-level coding, you probably owe it to yourself to try Kettle or another ETL product. If you're using ETL for anything beyond dirt-simple scenarios, you'll probably save yourself some time and effort by reviewing the best practices contained here.
As with her earlier book, PDI 3. I recommend PDI Cookbook for intermediate users - those who have graduated from the Beginner's Guide, but still require some guidance on using the beginner to intermediate features.
The Cookbook is written with easy, step by step recipes for various standard 'gotchas' like reading structured or unstructured files. Of particular interest for advanced users will be the last three chapters, which discuss how to integrate PDI with the rest of the Pentaho Business Intelligence suite of tools, reusing transformations and jobs, and showing how to collect metadata on the processes being created in those transformations and jobs.
If the reader finds building the recipes taking up too much time, the full set of code is available on the publisher's website as well as sample database sets on which the recipies are built. In the essence of full disclosure, Packt Publishing asked me to write this review and offered a copy of one of their other published works for my trouble. This in no way has changed my opinion on PDI Cookbook. Pentaho Data Integration PDI has reached its 4th version with a lot of new interesting features and capabilities.
This versatile tool is a must for all people working with data integration. Transformations and jobs are the target in PDI to realize a task including data reading, writing, manipulations and integrations, doing mathematical or logical operations, all this is tipical of a ETL tool where ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load.
Do you need to move data from an excel file to a database, from a database to a text file? All this must be done regularly, automatically?
Contribute to happyapple/gavin-repo development by creating an account on GitHub. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook explains Kettle features in detail through clear and practical recipes that you can quickly apply to your.
Would it be cool to be notified by email if the process failed? Sure you can do it in a lot of ways, but an ETL tool gives you the necessary help.
This book provides a lot of step-by-step examples called "recipes" with a lot of practical, useful and very smart hints and strategies for developing transformations and jobs. New steps a step a is basic task, for example reading from a file, sorting , grouping, calculating, I found very useful the space dedicated to: The use of targeted examples makes the reading very pleasant and easy.
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