Have you ever heard the phrase “beggars can’t be choosers”? Basically, it means that if you ask for something, be grateful for what you get, especially if you don’t have the means to acquire it yourself. This phrase can be widely applicable to most areas of our lives, but when
Tag: data quality
Beggars can’t be choosers…Unless they’re using SAS Viya
Using an alternate Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) in a DataFlux Data Management Studio data job
In DataFlux Data Management Studio, the predominate component of the SAS Data Quality bundle, the data quality nodes in a data job use definitions from something called the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB). The QKB supports over 25 languages and provides a set of pre-built rules, definitions and reference data
Matching Names: How to Avoid a Common Mistake
Sometimes when trying to fuzzy match names you want to fuzzy match just a portion of the name: for example, Family Name and/or Given Name. A common mistake that people make is to feed in the Family Name and Given Name columns separately into the Match Codes node instead of