Before skipping to the next chapter, let's devote some time to the installation of extra software that will complement our work with PDI.
First of all, it is really important that you have a nice text editor. You will need it for preparing testing data, for reading files before ingesting them with PDI, for viewing data that comes out of transformations, and for reviewing logs. A couple of examples of good text editors are Notepad++ and Sublime Text.
You will be working with spreadsheets, so another useful software will be a spreadsheet editor, as, for example, OpenOffice Calc.
In Chapter 10, Performing Basic Operations with Databases, and Chapter 11, Loading Data Marts with PDI, you will work with databases. ...
