I am working on a project that will require me to get a flat data file (excel spreadsheet) with hundreds of thousands of records. Each record is an Owner, and specifically what they own. There will be a field for OwnerName that I want to figure out a way to pull the data into a database like;Table(Owners) - make sure owner is listed only onceTable(Properties) - joined to owners showing all properties that person ownsNow the tricky part, the owner names might not be exactly the same. Some records might have;Smith, JohnJohn SmithSmith, John Tetc.To make matters worse, this will be a continuous process. I will receive updated excel spreadsheets from time to time and will need to import the new records, many times overwriting the old data. For the good news, there should be an OwnerID that will be unique within the excel data. So as I am merging similar records into the Owners table, I should have a list of OwnerID's that can forever be used to link to the owner.Any thoughts on the best process for something like this?
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