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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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Splitting an input row into multiple outputs based on input conditions


Often, it is required to filter input data into multiple outputs depending upon given criteria, for instance, splitting customer data by region, as in this example, or by team. Another very common example is to split the input data into validated records and records that have been rejected due to having failed a quality check (see Checking a column against a list of allowed values in Chapter 3, Validating Data for examples of using tMap to filter invalid rows).

This recipe shows how the tMap output Expression filters are used to perform filtering of the nature described precedingly.

Getting ready

Open the job jo_cook_ch04_0060_multipleOutputs.

How to do it...

  1. When you open tMap you will see three identical output tables

  2. Click the Expression filter button for the table UK to open an expression field, as shown in the next screenshot.
  3. Drag the input column countryOfBirth into this box.

  4. Add .equals("UK") to the end of the expression...

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Published in: Oct 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782167266

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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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