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Data Quality Services

Within the same MDS family is SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) that complements MDS and is usable by other key data manipulation components within the SQL Server environment. This feature allows you to build a knowledge base of data rules and use them to perform a variety of critical data quality tasks, including correction, enrichment, standardization, and de-duplication of your data. Microsoft has also tooled these data cleansing capabilities up by using cloud-based reference data services (provided by industry data providers). This also includes the ability to do some basic data profiling to better understand the integrity and overall data quality state of your core data.

There are two primary components to DQS: ...