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Published inOct 2013
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Rick Barton
Rick Barton
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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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Using tLogRow to show data in a row


This recipe demonstrates some simple but interesting features of tLogRow, one of the simplest components in Talend.

Getting ready

Open the jo_cook_ch10_0050_tLogRow job and run it. This is the default format for tLogRow.

How to do it...

The steps for using tLogRow display data in a row are as follows:

  1. Open the tLogRow component and change the Field Seperator to, and execute. This will give you a CSV output.

  2. Click on the option Use fixed lengths for values, and set all the Length columns to 30. You will see a formatted output. If not, then you will need to copy the console output to a text editor. Note that you will need to use CTRL + A followed by CTRL + C to copy, because right-click does not work in the console.

  3. Now, change the Length columns to -30. Notice that, the information is now left-justified rather than right-justified.

  4. Close tLogRow and change the component name from tLogRow_1 to customers.

  5. Open the tLogRow component and change the type to Vertical...

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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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