Deduplicate LinkedIns

Category: Social Media

Frequency: Monthly

Platform: SQL Server

Owner: IDS

 

What Does It Do?

The OUD-DS3 best practice is for only one copy of any piece of contact information to be active on a constituent’s record.

This integrity check identifies LinkedIn social media records that appear multiple times on a constituent’s record so that duplicated records can be deleted. 

How Is This Done?

This integrity check is run using a SQL Server view called [INTEGRITY_CHECKS].[dbo].[IDS.V-INTEGRITY CHECK-SOCIALMEDIA-Deduplicate LinkedIns(DW)], which is located in DB-OUD > Databases > INTEGRITY_CHECKS > Views.

That view queries LinkedIn records that appear multiple times on a constituent record; the URL is standardized before this comparison is done, so “http://linkedin.com/in/my-name” will show as a duplicate of “https://www.linkedin.com/in/my-name/”. The records are prioritized so that the best one is kept: a record with an associated contact name is prioritized first, then the record that was added to DART first is prioritized.

Resources and References

DART Linkedin URL Best Practices and Audits - OUD, Integrated Data Services

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