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DQ Alert: Easy Savings by Removing Dups

DataQualityEdge
Last updated: 2009/08/05 at 2:34 PM
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Poor data quality costs over $600 billion annually as per TDWI surveys and studies.

Whether you are the VP looking over your latest sales, the secretary compiling a mailing list, the data quality analyst rummaging through data sets, the business analyst working on a data integration project, or an accountant going over the projected budget.

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Whether you are in a large Fortune 500 company, in the government, or a small community association you will benefit.

Duplicate records

Duplicate records of customers cause discontented customers and multiple mail-outs. How is it possible to have duplicate records?

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3 Huge Reasons that Data Integrity is Absolutely Essential
  • Records are manually entered twice;
  • Processes create record twice;
  • Participants registered under multiple names;
  • Participants registered at multiple locals.

So before you send out a mailing list to your community members, or potential program participants for marketing campaigns or program sign-ups for this year’s sports, arts, sales, and/or membership drive seasons:

  1. Sort that list by name. Why because you may have the child on the list twice, or three times; after sorting by name;
  2. Sort by address, you may have the same family household multiple times because one the parents registered …


Poor data quality costs over $600 billion annually as per TDWI surveys and studies.

- Advertisement -

Whether you are the VP looking over your latest sales, the secretary compiling a mailing list, the data quality analyst rummaging through data sets, the business analyst working on a data integration project, or an accountant going over the projected budget.

Whether you are in a large Fortune 500 company, in the government, or a small community association you will benefit.

Duplicate records

Duplicate records of customers cause discontented customers and multiple mail-outs. How is it possible to have duplicate records?

  • Records are manually entered twice;
  • Processes create record twice;
  • Participants registered under multiple names;
  • Participants registered at multiple locals.

So before you send out a mailing list to your community members, or potential program participants for marketing campaigns or program sign-ups for this year’s sports, arts, sales, and/or membership drive seasons:

  1. Sort that list by name. Why because you may have the child on the list twice, or three times; after sorting by name;
  2. Sort by address, you may have the same family household multiple times because one the parents registered under their name, and/or siblings are registered with your organization as well.

Don’t know how to sort… here’s a good way to start if you’re using Microsoft Excel… highlight your records and click on this little icon , it’s easy as breaking eggs.

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Or

New SQL type programming here’s a simple query that will identify duplicate records.

SELECT attribute1, attribute2, attribute3, attributen… count(*)
FROM
dbo.tablex
GROUP BY attribute1, attribute2, attribute3, attributen…
HAVING (COUNT(*) > 1)

I hope this helps anyone working with customer lists.

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DataQualityEdge August 5, 2009
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