> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Wurlod > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:31 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] Merge/Purge methods... > > > Not sure what "software package" you're referring to here. > > It's expensive software but it's good.
Ray, I wasn't really looking for software packages to do the merge/purge. We are already going to go with a packge, that upon trialing, seemed to do a very good job, but for now I'll remain nameless, just because I don't know if it's good or bad overall. What we currently do is create a simple key, LN*FN[1,3]*location (either zip[1,5] or country) as we traverse the list of names in the file, the @ID is added to the Key item <-1>. When we are done, in the work file we keep only item<1> for each and that's our merged file. It's simple, but also has a lot of false failures, and misses some as well. We know that, which is why we went with a canned package. I read a bunch of techniques, but could not realistically see how to put into a fairly simple process that would still complete it's analysis on a file in fair amount of time which being less than 5 min for 50,000 names. If not using canned software, what are others (what methods) using for doing their Merge purging? Just fishing for other ideas other than the simple key method, and one that in general is not a 5 year project to program. Since using the canned software, adds a few extra steps, and is external to UV, I'd still like to come up with a better merge purge. George ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
