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Thursday, 10 October 2013

Understanding the Pentaho Kettle Dimension Insert/Update Step Null Value Behaviour

Posted on 10:58 by Unknown
We will be using a very simple sample transformation to test the null value behaviour:We use the Data Grid step to provide some sample data. We specified an id and name column and added data for one record. Let’s run the transformation and take a look at your dimension table in a query client:Notice that Kettle automatically inserted an additional record with a technical key of value 0. This will only happen in the first execution. Below this record...
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Posted in Data Integration, ETL, Kimball, Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Kettle, Slowly Changing Dimension | No comments

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Going Agile: Pentaho Community Build Framework (CBF)

Posted on 09:21 by Unknown
Going Agile: Pentaho Community Build Framework (CBF)Info SourcesCBF WebsiteMy old blog postPrashant’s Pentaho forum postWhyCBF is an excellent tool to automate the build of your Pentaho BI/BA servers. Say you have various environments like dev, test, prod and you want an easy way of configuring and building your servers automatically, then CBF is for you.Create basic folder structurehttp://www.webdetails.pt/ctools/cbf.html provides a tar file with the basic structure. Download this file and extract it in a convenient location. Follow all the basic...
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Posted in Agile development, C-Tools, CBF, Community Build Framework, Pentaho | No comments
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