Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Data Quality Services

Within the same MDS family is SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS), which truly complements MDS and is leveraged by other key data manipulation components within the SQL Server environment. This feature allows you to build a knowledge base of data rules enabling a variety of critical data quality tasks, including correction, enrichment, standardization, and de-duplication of your data. Microsoft has also opened up this environment to include 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. In a nutshell, DQS enables you to resolve issues involving ...