Pentaho Data Integration Articles

Pentaho Tech Tips

• Kettle Telemetry and Usage Statistics
• PDI with Agile BI plug-in on Ubuntu 12
• PDI One liners and quick tips
• Running kettle transformation using Java
• Configuring Kettle VFS
• Quick Recipes
• PDI Performance tuning check-list — Mar 31, 2008
• Executing Job or Transformation packaged in a zip file — Mar 30, 2008
• Mappings re-visited (version 3 or higher) — February 27, 2008
• Step error handling codes — January 17, 2008
• PDI Plugin Loading — Sep 24, 2007
• Javascript and Java Object Access in Kettle — March 30, 2006
• Helpful Tips and Tricks Using Kettle — April 14, 2006
• Looking Up Information in Kettle — April 14, 2006
• Mappings in Kettle — May 9, 2006
• Using Variables in Kettle — May 23, 2006
• How to Configure Kettle's Spoon for a Pentaho Solution — May 25, 2006
• Use Kettle to Migrate Sample Data to MySQL — July 11, 2006
• Loading Binary Objects With Kettle — August 23, 2006
• Evaluating Parameters in Kettle Jobs — August 24, 2006
• Using the Copy Table Wizard — August 24, 2006
• Auditing and Operational Metadata — September 1, 2006

External Articles

• Great Overview of Kettle — June 10, 2006
  Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, Netherlands
• UPSERTS Using Kettle and MySQL — May 4, 2006
  Contributed by Nicholas Goodman, Pentaho blogger extraordinaire
• Using Java Locale to create a date dimension — September 4th, 2007
  Contributed by Roland Bouman, MySQL AB, Netherlands
• Kettle und die Entwicklung eines eigenen Plug-ins (German) — September, 2007 [Java Magazin 10.2007]
  Contributed by Jens Bleuel, Pentaho
• Studie zur Entwicklung eines Data Warehouses zur Auswertung von SAP-Controlling Daten an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (German) - February, 2006
  Written by Martin Bernsteiner. [Development of a Data Warehouse for analysing SAP-Controlling Data at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration]
• Busines Solutions using PDI (In Open Document Text Format) -  2 May 2008
  A work in progress text consisting of case studies and examples on solving common business problems with PDI.
  Contributed by Pradesh Chanderpaul, DataCraft Software, South Africa
• HowTo setup a repository for Pentaho — March 17, 2009
  A new user who is evaluating or discovering all the possibilities available with Pentaho may find it difficult to get the first repository database setup. This article aims at giving a helping hand with this task.
  Contributed by Gustav Schaffter
• Quick Recipes — Ongoing updates
  Quick recipes for some common basic tasks.
  Contributed by NilsB
• Using Variables ( ? ) with Table Input Steps— June 12, 2010
  Contributed by Prashant Raju - Pentaho Community Member
• Processing group of files executing a job once per file — August 26, 2010
  Contributed by Sergio Ramazzina - Pentaho Community Member
• Configure Kettle debug session (on SlideShare IT Lang http://www.slideshare.net/amusarra/configure-kettle-debug-session) -- February 21, 2011
  Contributed by Antonio Musarra (Italia)
• Running Kettle Job by API (on SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/amusarra/running-kettle-job-by-api) -- March 28, 2011
  Contributed by Antonio Musarra (Italia)