Hi Experts,
I have been using the match wizard and am totally confused. I have created a simple match using three fields (last name, first name and middle name). I have sorted the input using the field SOURCE.
There are two values for SOURCE. My input table has a values of NEW and OLD. One record has NEW and seven others have OLD. The NEW record finds a match for records 5, 6, and 7 all of which have similar values for all three names. However the 8th record is a perfect match and yet fails to be identified as a match.
I can't understand why this is happening.
Also I have set each field to contribute to a weighted score. None the less my three partial matches all get a score of 100. Again I can't understand why they don't get lower scores.
The result set is shown below.
| CLIENT | PARTNER | SOURCE | *** | NAME_LAST | NAME_FIRST | NAMEMIDDLE | BIRTHPL | NATIO | BIRTHDT | set1_level1_GROUP_NUMBER | set1_level1_MATCH_SCORE | set1_level1_GroupStats1_GROUP_COUNT | set1_level1_GroupStats1_GROUP_RANK |
| 0 | 10000001 | OLD | MALE | Brown | Aaron | Brian | AUS | AUS | 05011970 | <Null> | <Null> | 1 | <Null> |
| 0 | 10000002 | OLD | MALE | Kramer | Charlie | Cedric | NZ | NZ | 12061982 | <Null> | <Null> | 1 | <Null> |
| 0 | 10000003 | OLD | MALE | Collins | Charles | Cedric | NZ | AUS | 05011970 | <Null> | <Null> | 1 | <Null> |
| 0 | 10000007 | OLD | MALE | Jones-Smyth | Jamie | Julius | UK | NZ | 06121948 | <Null> | <Null> | 1 | <Null> |
| 0 | 0 | NEW | MALE | Jones-Smyth | Jamie | Julius | UK | UK | 11061973 | 1 | <Null> | 4 | M |
| 0 | 10000004 | OLD | MALE | Jones | James | Julius | UK | UK | 11061973 | 1 | 100 | 4 | S |
| 0 | 10000005 | OLD | MALE | Jones-Smith | Jamey | J | UK | UK | 11061973 | 1 | 100 | 4 | S |
| 0 | 10000006 | OLD | MALE | Jones-Smith | Jamie | Julian | UK | UK | 11061974 | 1 | 100 | 4 | S |
Thanks
Cliff the bewildered