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)

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