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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2005
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkatesh Ganti, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rohit Ananthakrishna, Ithaca, NY (US);
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkatesh Ganti, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rohit Ananthakrishna, Ithaca, NY (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The invention concerns a detection of duplicate tuples in a database. Previous domain independent detection of duplicated tuples relied on standard similarity functions (e.g., edit distance, cosine metric) between multi-attribute tuples. However, such prior art approaches result in large numbers of false positives if they are used to identify domain-specific abbreviations and conventions. In accordance with the invention a process for duplicate detection is implemented based on interpreting records from multiple dimensional tables in a data warehouse, which are associated with hierarchies specified through key—foreign key relationships in a snowflake schema. The invention exploits the extra knowledge available from the table hierarchy to develop a high quality, scalable duplicate detection process.