SQL Server 2008 Integration Services ships with the wonderful new Data Profiling Task. Much as the name implies, it profiles the data in a given table and returns a ton of useful information. The task ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server.

The first step is just the basic data loads into the staging tables on the server running DQS. The 2nd step appears to synchronize with the current master data set to prevent re-matching, and then ...