Using regular expression support to validate data
In this recipe, we will see how you can use regular expressions to validate your data. We will take a simple example of validating phone numbers extracted from the source OLTP table PERSONPHONE located in the PERSON schema. The validation rule would be to identify all records which have phone numbers different from this pattern: ddd-ddd-dddd (d being a numeral). Let's say that we do not want to reject any data. Our goal is to generate a dashboard report showing the percentage of records in the source table which do not comply with the specified requirement for the phone number pattern.
Getting ready
Make sure that you have the PERSON.PERSONPHONE table imported into the OLTP datastore. We will create ...
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