Data profiling is the process of examining the data available in an existing data source and collecting statistics and information about that data.
Data profiling is the process of examining the data available in an existing data source (e.g. a database or a file) and collecting statistics and information about that data.
Data profiling is an analysis of the candidate data sources for a data warehouse to clarify the structure, content, relationships and derivation rules of the data. Profiling helps to understand anomalies and to assess data quality, but also to discover, register, and assess enterprise metadata.