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Connecting to a database and using the database explorer

There are two things that you must do in order to connect to a database, if you intend to use its data inside PDI:

Install the proper JDBC driver
Create a connection to the database

For demonstration purposes, we will connect to a PostgreSQL engine where we have installed a sports database, available for download at http://www.sportsdb.org/sd that you have a JDBC drive/samples.

Make sure that you have a JDBC driver, a .jar file – for the engine. Once you have it, you will have to copy it into the lib folder in the PDI installation directory and restart Spoon.

PDI 8.1 comes with a driver for PostgreSQL, but this is not the case for all of the engines, so make sure that you get the ...

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