Posted by ShriKant Vashishtha in the early morning: September 30th, 2009
Recently for our project we started using Kettle for ETL purposes. Pentaho Kettle provides UI based tool. Initially it takes quite some time to get used to Kettle UI as it becomes difficult to visualize how to orchestrate available Kettle Steps to solve a business problem. As you know how to use it, it’s all about drag and drop a step and configuring it with available UI. With our experience we observed that it’s pretty easy to design 90% stuff easily but rest 10% involves a lot of research and at the end involved some hacks which we never liked.
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