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Data profiling is the process of examining the data available from an existing information source and collecting statistics or informative summaries about that data. The purpose of these statistics may be to:Find out whether existing data can be easily used for other purposes
Improve the ability to search data by tagging it with keywords, descriptions, or assigning it to a category
Assess data quality, including whether the data conforms to particular standards or patterns
Assess the risk involved in integrating data in new applications, including the challenges of joins
Discover metadata of the source database, including value patterns and distributions, key candidates, foreign-key candidates, and functional dependencies
Assess whether known metadata accurately describes the actual values in the source database
Understanding data challenges early in any data intensive project, so that late project surprises are avoided. Finding data problems late in the project can lead to delays and cost overruns.
Have an enterprise view of all data, for uses such as master data management, where key data is needed, or data governance for improving data quality.
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