Data Quality Services
MDM and MDS are all about preventing the problem of inconsistent, inaccurate, or erroneous master data. But what if you’re in a situation (and many people are) where you already have a bunch of master data and it’s not clean? Then what do you do? One solution is to use a data quality tool like SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS), a new member of the Microsoft BI family, which aims to manage the process of cleaning up “dirty data.”
There can be many causes for dirty data. Imagine a system where a Customers table is littered with variants of the same company name like “Contoso,” “Contoso Inc.,” Contoso, Inc,” and “Contoso Incorporated.” Then imagine that you are writing a report that needs to group sales by customer, and ...
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