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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
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Pentaho Data Integration Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

by María Carina Roldán
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate
502 pages
12h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Generating a custom time dimension dataset by using Kettle variables

Dimensions are sets of attributes useful for describing a business. A list of products along with their shape, color, or size is a typical example of dimension. The time dimension is a special dimension used for describing a business in terms of when things happened. Just think of time dimension as a list of dates along with attributes describing these dates. For example, given the date 05/08/2009, you know that it is a day of August, it belongs to the third quarter of the year, and it is Wednesday. These are some of the attributes for that date.

In the following tutorial, you will create a transformation that generates the dataset for a time dimension, fundamental in any data ...

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