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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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Time for action – automating the loading of the sales datamart

Suppose that every day you want to update your sales datamart by adding the information about the sales for the day before. Let's do some modifications to the jobs and transformations you created, so that the job can be run automatically.

In order to test the changes, you will have to change the date for your system. Set the current date to 2009-10-02.

  1. Create a new transformation.
  2. Drag to the canvas a Get system info step and fill it as shown:
    Time for action – automating the loading of the sales datamart
  3. With a Select values step, change the metadata of both fields. As type, put String and as format, yyyy-MM-dd.
  4. Add a Set variables step and use the ...
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