When you begin a data integration project, profiling is often the first step. You can create profiles to analyze the content, quality, and structure of data sources. As a part of the profiling process, you discover the metadata of data sources.
You use different profiles for different types of data analysis, such as a column profile. You uncover and document data quality issues. Complete the following tasks to perform profiling:
Find and analyze the content of data in the data sources. Includes data types, value frequency, pattern frequency, and data statistics, such as minimum value and maximum value.