Free data quality pattern analysis tool for Excel, will help cash-strapped data discovery analysts

If you're a new visitor to the site you may not know that our sister site, Data Quality Pro, frequently releases great new community tools that directly benefit the data migration folk on this site.

The latest tool to be created is free to members and like all our tools falls under a creative commons license which means you can use it, change it and share it but please don't sell it without our consent!

It is called the "Pattern Analyser for Excel" and it will help you discover data rules for pattern formats, trap insidious defects you definitely do not want to be migrating and generally beef up your data analysis activities.

In the post we also list our other free tools so far released, pattern analysis for MS-Access and Oracle.

It's free, takes only 20 seconds to download and we've even published a simple tutorial showing a few examples.

Just check out this post for details of the tutorial and how to download the tool.