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Published inOct 2013
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ISBN-139781782167266
Edition1st Edition
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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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Creating schemas from lists

This next recipe doesn’t make use of Talend at all. Rather, it is a technique to save lots of tedious typing when creating schemas from documents and/or spreadsheets.

Getting ready

Open the MS Word document customerFieldList.docx. As you can see, there are a reasonable number of field descriptions that would take a reasonable amount of time to define individually.

How to do it...

  1. Select all the column names from the word document and paste into an Excel spreadsheet:

  2. Now select all the fields, right click it, and select Copy.

  3. Go to the second worksheet and click the top-left cell.

  4. Then, right-click and select Paste Special, and select the option Transpose:

  5. This will copy the previous vertical list into a horizontal list.

  6. Delete the initial worksheet and save the file as a CSV file named TransposedCustomer.csv

  7. You can then import the CSV file using the wizard for File delimited and stating that the file has a heading row.

  8. Set the field separator as Comma, and tick the box...

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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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