Thursday, November 18, 2010

Removing Duplicate Contact File Records

I just added two cool new options to the Staff web site that can help eliminated wasteful duplicate records in the Contact File database. You can access the new pages from the Contact Search option and then going to the Contact Maintenance page. The new options attempt to find existing duplicate records in the Contact File database by showing the most frequently repeated street addresses and the most frequently repeated names. Using either of these lists as a starting point you can select duplicate records and merge them together so that only one Contact File record remains but the links are preserved. To better explain how to use these new pages and the Contact File Upkeep option in the Window interface I've also added a new tutorial "Contact File Maintenance In ZonePro SQL" to our web site. It is a riveting piece of non-fiction that I highly recommend adding to your reading list.

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