
9.4 The Rules for Structure ! t)
Too often the data profiling analyst believes that structure issues do not
require semantic interpretation and leaves the business experts out of the pro-
cess. This is a big mistake and can lead to serious problems later on.
A RECENT
structure analysis data pro-
filing action resulted in a verification
meeting with the business analysts and
some of the users. After a discussion
about an unexpected discovery of an
embedded denormaIi~ed functional
dependency set, the businesspeople
realized that this was the root of a
naggingproblem they had been inves-
tigating unsuccessfully concerning ...