Do you really know your data? Profiling is the first step in uncovering weaknesses in your database so that data can be captured accurately for use in analytics, business intelligence and master data ...

Figure 1. Use the Data Profiling Task to do things like gather data on tables you'll need to manage that you may not have seen before. Here's a sample showing how to get column length data for a ...

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 ...

French open-source data-integration vendor Talend SA today unveiled its data profiling application, which will allow companies to assess their data quality as a key part of data integration projects.

The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterprise.