Book Review : Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration

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Dear Kettle fans,

A few weeks ago, when I was stuck in the US after the MySQL User Conference, a new book was published by Packt Publishing.

That all by itself is something that is not too remarkable. *However, this time it’s a book about my brainchild Kettle. That makes this book very special to me. The full title is Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration : Beginner’s Guide (Amazon, Packt). *The title all by itself explains the purpose of this book: give the reader a quick-start when it comes to Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle).



The author María Carina Roldán (twitter) is a seasoned BI consultant and a valued member of the Kettle community. Besides her frequent appearances on our forum, she is appreciated by many for the time she spent on the*Kettle Tutorial.

I’m not going to go over the detailed table of content. *Since I wrote the foreword of the book, I’m sure you’ll agree I’m somewhat biased. However, in all objectivity, the book covers what it claims to cover: it does help the PDI/Kettle beginner tremendously. *It covers all you need to get started and then some: the installation of PDI, the typical “Hello World” setup of PDI, reading text files, calculating, scripting, databases, repositories, etc. *As the title indicates, this book covers the current 3.2 stable release of Kettle, not the upcoming 4.0 release. However, for as far as 99% of the topics covered are concerned, that shouldn’t make too much of a difference.

So obviously I can recommend this book very much. It’s a time-saver for those that are starting with PDI. *For those that have dabbled with Kettle before I must say that María packed the book with nice tips and tricks so I’m sure you’ll be able to learn a thing or two.

Until next time,

Matt



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