December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
500 pages
12h 10m
English
book
Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition
by Dan Keeley, Diethard Steiner, María Carina Roldán, Miguel Gaspar, Pablo Castagnaro, Paula Clemente, Paulo Alexandre de Oliveira Rodrigues Pires
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Creating Portable and Reusable Transformations
When you design and implement jobs and transformations in PDI, you not only want certain tasks to be accomplished, but also want a work that can be reused, easy to maintain, and more. This chapter explains several techniques meant to accomplish these objectives. We will cover the following topics:
- Using Kettle variables to give flexibility to your transformations
- Reusing part of your transformations using mappings
- Copying and getting rows as part of a process flow
- Iterating the execution of transformations
The basics about Spoon have already been covered. Therefore, in this chapter, we will not give much space to details such as how to configure a Text file input step. Instead, we will focus ...
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