Sorting a dataset with the sort rows step

Sorting with PDI is really easy to implement but there are a couple of settings that you have to consider when doing it. Learning to do that is the objective of this quick tutorial.

For this exercise, we will use, one more time, the sales_data.csv file that we used in Chapter 4, Reading and Writing Files. Here, you have sample lines of the file:

ORDERDATE,ORDERNUMBER,ORDERLINENUMBER,PRODUCTCODE,PRODUCTLINE,QUANTITYORDERED,PRICEEACH,SALES2/20/2004 0:00 ,10223,10,S24_4278 ,Planes ,23,74.62,1716.2611/21/2004 0:00,10337,3,S18_4027 ,Classic Cars ,36,100 ,5679.366/16/2003 0:00 ,10131,2,S700_4002,Planes ,26,85.13,2213.387/6/2004 0:00 ,10266,5,S18_1984 ,Classic Cars ,49,100 ,6203.410/16/2004 0:00,10310,4,S24_2972 ...

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