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STEP 7: Examine data for duplicates and perform automatic merging
This step is where the fuzzy-matching engine examines
each record in your database against every other record in the database.
The examination process can take some time – for more
details please see Why does the examination process
take so long? This will give you
some information as to what can make the process slow, along with ideas for
speeding it up.
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IMPORTANT: The
Duplicate Record Remover will not cause any data to be lost during the automatic
merging process. Any
matches with a likeness above the percentage threshold set will only be
automatically merged if there is no conflicting data (i.e. 100% alike), or
any conflicting data exists only in fields that have an automatic merge type
(such as Sum, Min, Max, Concatenate, etc). This
means that if there is any conflicting data in any ‘Manual Merge’ fields, the
matching duplicate records will not be automatically merged regardless of how
high the likeness percentage is. They
will be left for manual processing with the Processing Tool so you can decide
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Next Step: STEP 7: Examination
Process Complete
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