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In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Value Inclusion profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Computes the overlap in the values between two columns or sets of columns. This profile can determine whether a column or set of columns is appropriate to serve ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Candidate Key profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports whether a column or set of columns is a key, or an approximate key, for the selected table. This profile also helps you identify problems in your data, ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Functional Dependency profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports the extent to which the values in one column (the dependent column) depend on the values in another column or set of columns (the determinant ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Column Value Distribution profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports all the distinct values in the selected column and the percentage of rows in the table that each value represents. Can also report values that ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Column Statistics profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports statistics, such as minimum, maximum, average, and standard deviation for numeric columns, and minimum and maximum for datetime columns. This profile ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Column Pattern profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports a set of regular expressions that cover the specified percentage of values in a string column. This profile helps you identify problems in your ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Column Null Ratio profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports the percentage of null values in the selected column. This profile helps you identify problems in your data, such as an unexpectedly high ratio ...

In this blog entry I am going to outline the function of the Column Length Distribution profile request in the new Data Profiling Task in SQL Server 2008. BOL states about this profile request: Reports all the distinct lengths of string values in the selected column and the percentage of rows in the table that each length represents. This ...

The February CTP of SQL Server 2008 delivered a usable version of the Data Profiling Task that is being introduced into SQL Server Integration Services 2008. I am putting together a series of blog entries that highlights the functionality available with this task and the blog entry that you are reading now is an introduction to that ...

''Why the <insert your favourite expletive here> doesn't SSIS support C# for the script task and script component?''   I've heard the above complaint, in various different ways, many many times over the past 18 months since SQL Server 2005 was released. Its a valid complaint to which there is a valid answer (which I'm not going ...