Fuzzy Lookup Issue

  • Hi,

    Am trying to filter bad data using a fuzzy lookup and am getting no results returned which are similar. Both my reference table and table containing bad data have a nvarchar(20) - but when the package is run, only the good values are returned i.e. exact matches.

    e.g a value of "C3" is present in the bad data and should actually be a value of "C03" which is stored in my reference table - when i run the package and use a data viewer to preview the results the example returns a similarity threshold of 0. I thought this might be due to the combination of a letter and number, so I included another test, with just text, using "TES" as the bad data and "TEST" as the reference value.

    Again no similar values returned. I can't seee what I'm doing wrong, can anyone give me any pointers?

     

    Thx

  • Found out what the problem was - as the value in the data table is short, fuzzy lookup cannot find a match. Setting the Exhaustive component property of the lookup to TRUE returns the correct results, however this means every input record is compared to each reference value - time consuming for large tables....

    oh well, at least I know the solution now..

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