Time for action – generating a range of dates and inspecting how things are running

In this tutorial, you will run the transformation you created in the tutorial, Time for action – generating a range of dates and inspecting the data as it is being created from Chapter 2, Getting Started with Transformations. The novelty here is that you will run it from a job as shown:

  1. Run Spoon and create a new job.
  2. Expand the General category of entries and drag a START and a Transformation entry to the canvas.
  3. Create a hop form the START entry to the Transformation entry.
  4. Save the job.
  5. Before continuing, look for the transformation that generated a date range—the one that you created back in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Transformations. Copy it to a folder named ...

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