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Pentaho Kettle 5 comes with improved database repository performance
Two weeks ago I wrote about Kettle 4.4 and its database repository and how working with it is truly no fun due to excessive latency connected with loading and saving of jobs and transformations....
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The Making of a Pretty Web Stats Report with Pentaho Report Designer 5
First – let me whet your appetite by showing you what a pretty pretty report you will be able to compose after you finished this tutorial – and there you go (click on the picture to bask in the...
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Getting Started With Pentaho BI Server 5, Mondrian and Saiku
Pentaho’s BI Server or BA platform allows you to access business data in the form of dashboards, reports or OLAP cubes via a convient web interface. Additionally it provides an interface to administer...
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Using the Dimension Lookup/Update Step in Pentaho Kettle
In a traditional star schema the dimensions are located within specialized tables which are referred to by numeric keys from the fact table. A dimension can represent anything from the gender (“male”,...
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Mondrian Schema for OLAP Cube Definition ft. Google Analytics and Saiku
What I am going to showcase in this tutorial is how to load web stats from Google Analytics into a fact table with Penthao Kettle/PDI. And then how to represent that fact table with Mondrian 3.6 schema...
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