{"id":273,"date":"2008-10-01T19:35:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/it-is-finally-here-manage-datasources\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T02:35:44","slug":"it-is-finally-here-manage-datasources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/it-is-finally-here-manage-datasources\/","title":{"rendered":"It is FINALLY here &#8211; Manage Datasources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the very first time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/open-source-bi-i-like-pentaho\/\">I downloaded the Pentaho<\/a> suite I&#8217;ve been wailing, screaming, shouting, snarking that there absolutely <strong>MUST<\/strong> be a way to manage data sources that does not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/connect-to-your-own-database\/\">involve XML<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; Holy Shit.  At just under 3 years it&#8217;s here (Pentaho Administration Console from 2.0.M3 build):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/200810011933.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/200810011933.jpg','popup','width=522,height=598,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/200810011933.jpg\"  border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"200810011933\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a most appreciated feature for those getting started with Pentaho!  Thank you to the Pentaho Engineers for whipping it up!<br \/>\nPS &#8211; It&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/jira.pentaho.com\/browse\/BISERVER-1556\">perfect yet,<\/a> but should be solid by 2.0 GA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the very first time I downloaded the Pentaho suite I&#8217;ve been wailing, screaming, shouting, snarking that there absolutely MUST be a way to manage data sources that does not involve XML. Well&#8230; Holy Shit. At just under 3 years it&#8217;s here (Pentaho Administration Console from 2.0.M3 build): This is a most appreciated feature for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}