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Advanced routing in Pentaho Kettle jobs - Part 2 25 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
Part one provided an introduction to Pentaho Kettle routing. This follow-up article will take a look at an additional example, which will retrieve an input value for the condition from a database. Thi...
Going Agile: Sqitch Database Change Management 11 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
Going Agile: Sqitch Database Change Management You have your database scripts under a dedicated version control and change management system, right? If not, I recommend doing this now. While there h...
Introducing the Kettle Test Framework Beta 23 Jul 2013 | 06:53 pm
Kettle Test Framework (KTF) Subtitle: Kettle Testing for the Non-Java Developers Announcing the KTF Beta: Precautions Please note that KTF is still in Beta and has undergone only minimal testing. ...
Pentaho Kettle Parameters and Variables: Tips and Tricks 17 Jul 2013 | 09:02 pm
Pentaho Kettle Parameters and Variables: Tips and Tricks This blog post is not intended to be a formal introduction to using parameters and variables in Pentaho Kettle, but more a practical showcase ...
How to work with MapReduce Key Value Pairs in Pentaho Data Integration 17 Jun 2013 | 11:10 pm
How to work with MapReduce Key Value Pairs in Pentaho Data Integration My main objective for this article is to provide you an understanding on how to use multiple fields to group by and multiple fie...
Pentaho Report Designer: How to show the parameter display name in your report when it is different from the parameter value 25 May 2013 | 01:50 am
One of my blog's readers just asked me quite an interesting question: How can I show the parameter display name in my Pentaho report if it is different from the parameter value? Note: Just to clarify...
New London Pentaho Usergroup meetup 17 May 2013 | 10:30 pm
It's been a long time since the last London Pentaho Usergroup meeting happened, so it's good to see that Dan Keeley and Pedro Alves are trying to bring new life into the Usergroup by organizing a new ...
Advanced routing in Pentaho Kettle jobs 10 Apr 2013 | 11:40 pm
In this article we will take a look at how to create some complex routing conditions for a Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) job. Out-of-the-box Kettle comes already with several easy to use conditio...
Missing pictures in my blog posts 7 Apr 2013 | 02:12 pm
Some readers have pointed out that pictures are missing in some of my blog posts. Thanks a lot for letting me know! The problem seems to be quite widespread especially among the older posts. I tried t...
Partitioning data on clustered Pentaho Kettle ETL transformations 20 Mar 2013 | 07:38 pm
This is the second article on clustering ETL transformations with Pentaho Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration). It is highly recommended that you read the first article Creating a clustered transformatio...
