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information is. There will be multiple time periods of the data within each of
which there is consistency but across time periods little or no consistency.
There are programmatic methods of finding potential inconsistency
points. However, these are very complex. This area of data profiling technol-
ogy is very new, with little maturity in implementations. However, you can
employ heuristic techniques to find them. One simple method is to divide data
into samples coming from different time periods (such as three-month inter-
vals), profiling them to determine the ...