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Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199546
Pages 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
The Kettle Project
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration 2. Getting Started with Transformations 3. Basic Data Manipulation 4. Controlling the Flow of Data 5. Transforming Your Data with JavaScript Code and the JavaScript Step 6. Transforming the Row Set 7. Validating Data and Handling Errors 8. Working with Databases 9. Performing Advanced Operations with Databases 10. Creating Basic Task Flows 11. Creating Advanced Transformations and Jobs 12. Developing and Implementing a Simple Datamart 13. Taking it Further Working with Repositories Pan and Kitchen: Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line Quick Reference: Steps and Job Entries Spoon Shortcuts Introducing PDI 4 Features Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – testing the update of existing products


In the preceding tutorial, you used an Insert/Update step, but only inserted records. Let's try the transformation again to see how the update option works.

  1. If you closed the transformation, please open it.

  2. Press F9 to launch the transformation again.

  3. As the value for the PRODUCTLISTFILE variable, insert productlist_LUX_200909.txt.

  4. Click Launch.

  5. When the transformation ends, check the Step Metrics tab. You will see the following:

  6. Switch to the SQL Query Browser application and click Execute to run the query again. This time you will see this:

What just happened?

You reran the transformation that was created in the previous tutorial, this time using a different input file. In this file there were new products and some products were removed from the list, whereas some had their descriptions, categories, and prices modified.

When you ran the transformation for the second time, the new products were added to the table. Also, the modified...

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