
2 2 C H A P T E R I The
Data Quality Problem
If a set of values from a database record is not in the set, the program looks for
a set that matches most of the elements and then fixes the missing or incorrect
part. The most common example of this is name and address fields. The corre-
lation set is the government database of values that can go together (e.g., city,
state, Zip code, and so on). In fact, there is little applicability of this type of
scrubbing for anything other than name and address examination.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Database management systems (DBMSs) have always touted their abilities to
promote correct ...