Skip to main content

Posts

How to perform incremental load in Talend ETL?

  How to Perform Incremental Load in Talend ETL Tool. Talend ETL is a data integration tool for data transformation, data quality and application integration. Its core feature is the ability to extract, transform and load (ETL) data from various sources. Talend’s first release was in 2006 and it has been growing since then. One of its key features is incremental loading and overwriting the existing records with new ones. Here are some ways to perform incremental load in Talend ETL. What is incremental load? The goal of incremental load is to keep the changes made in a certain time period and update the records with it. It basically means that if we have a table of data and we incrementally load new values for this period of time, then all the old records will be left untouched. It's important to mention that only new records will be updated. In Talend Data Loading, incremental loads can be achieved through different methods: using LOAD CSV, LOAD XML, several source database or usin...

How To Extract Data From an API Using Talend

  How To Extract Data From an API Using Talend. If you’re in charge of a data-heavy website, Talend is the tool for you. With Talend, you can easily extract data from an API and turn it into useful insights. For example, if you have a customer data set that includes customer reviews, you can use Talend to extract the reviews by customer. You can also use Talend to generate reports on different aspects of your customer data, such as the most popular products or services that customers have purchased. What is an API? API stands for Asynchronous Interface. An API is a set of rules or instructions that allow third-party developers to access and use the data stored by a business or organization. The data can be anything from customer data to sales data to contact information. API providers are typically companies that provide software development services, such as Talend, for businesses. These companies often have an API that they offer for free to their customers, and they also sell ad...