Record Matching Across Single Table

[milts]

I have a data set with 100k records of customer information.

I'm planning to build some simple rules for matching (ex. firstname + lastname);

So the code must go like matching record 1 to the other records then if it matches then i put the ids of these records in an output table.

Greatly appreciate your advise what are the possible faster approaches to attain these matching of records across a single table.

Thanks!

[Reeza]

It sounds like you're looking to do data linkages based on identifiers. Here's a tool that has been referenced - though I've never used it. 

http://www.the-link-king.com

Statistics Canada offers a tool called G-Link as well, free but they recommend support, you can find it via google.

Additionally, here's a solution that I kind of like that uses a few of the fuzzy matching options.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Name-matching/td-p/82780

[ballardw]

And another tool developed by the US CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/tools/registryplus/lp.htm