Newb question on how to do a Lookup.

I'm just starting with Kettle. I've done the Hello World tutorial and am now attempting a shallow step into the Kettle pool.

The end goal is to load a customer provided delimited file into a relational database.

CreateAcctLrf.png

Here some pretend data.

Customer Input File (parseCfAcct)
ACCT_ALIAS,ACCT_TYP,ACCT_STAT,EMAIL
mr_monkey,MONKEY_TRAINER,INACTIVE,mrmonkey@test.com
mrs_cat,CAT_TRAINER,INACTIVE,mrscat@test.com

Output of qryCdGrpEntries
CD_GRP_ENT_ID CD_GRP_ALIAS CD_GRP_ENT_ALIAS
3009 ACCT_STAT ACTIVE
3010 ACCT_STAT INACTIVE
3011 ACCT_STAT TERMINATED
3008 ACCT_TYP CAT_TRAINER
3005 ACCT_TYP DOG_TRAINER
3006 ACCT_TYP HORSE_TRAINER
3007 ACCT_TYP MONKEY_TRAINER

Expected Ouput of crtAcctLrf
ACCT_ALIAS,ACCT_TYP,ACCT_STAT,EMAIL
mr_monkey,3007,3010,mrmonkey@test.com
mrs_cat,3008,3010,mrscat@test.com

qryCdGrpEntries and parseCfAcct works just fine. What I'm having less success with is figuring out how to look up the ACCT_STAT and ACCT_TYP in the lookup stream and replace the string value of the composite key (CD_GRP_ALIAS, CD_GRP_ENT_ALIAS) with the PK integer value.

The Stream Lookup sounded like a good place to start. I wanted to load the CdGrpEntries into memory because they are rather static and I don't want to hit the database everytime I need to do a lookup. Am I using the correct type of lookup for this? Although i've read a bunch of other threads and googled this, I haven't seen anyone addressing the same type of problem. I haven't seen anything that will allow me to examine a given value in a field and do a lookup from another file for it. Which makes me think I'm using the wrong tool (Stream lookup vs ?).

Thanks

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