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Getting Familiar with Spoon

This chapter will show you how to work with Spoon by designing, debugging, and testing a transformation. In addition to exploring Spoon features, you will also learn the basics for handling errors when you are designing a transformation.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

Exploring the Spoon interface
Designing, previewing, and running transformations
Defining and using Kettle variables
Running transformations with the pan utility

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