About SAS Quality Knowledge Base?

SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) is a collection of files that store data and logic that define data management operations. SAS software products like DataFlux Data Management Studio and SAS Data Quality Server reference the QKB when performing data management operations on your data.

Each QKB supports data management operations for a specific business area. The QKB for Contact Information supports the management of commonly used contact information for individuals and organizations like names, addresses, company names, phone numbers, and more.

Data and logic in the QKB are organized into a set of definitions. Each definition defines a single context-sensitive data management operation. For example, a definition in the QKB might contain data and logic used to parse phone numbers. Another definition might contain data and logic used to determine the gender of an individual's name.

When you use DataFlux Data Management Studio or SAS Data Quality Server to process your data, you specify which definitions the software should invoke. For example, if you are generating a match report in Data Management Studio Data Jobs, you can specify that the Data Jobs use the Organization definition when processing data in the Company field of your table.

SAS provides periodic updates to the QKB with new definitions and enhancements to existing definitions. To download updates to the QKB, visit the SAS Support web site (http://support.sas.com/). Click Support > Downloads & Hot Fixes, the QKB downloads are listed in the SAS DataFlux Software section.

You can use definitions in the QKB as delivered by SAS, or you can customize the QKB by modifying definitions or creating new definitions for use with your own business data. Customizations to the QKB are made using DataFlux Data Management Studio Customize. Since the QKB is used by all SAS products and SAS Data Quality Server, changes made to the QKB with Data Management Studio Customize are automatically available to your entire enterprise.