Table Of Contents

• 1-Introduction

• 2-Scripts

  • OYSTERRunScripts

    • XML Declaration and Comments
    • OYSTERRunScript Tag
    • Settings Tag
    • LogFile Tag
    • RunMode Tag
    • EREngine Tag
    • AttributePath Tag
    • IdentityInput Tag
    • IdentityOutput Tag
    • Linkoutput Tag
    • AssertionInput Tag
    • ReferenceSources Tag
    • Source Tag

  • OYSTERAttributes

    • 2- XML Declaration and Comments
    • OysterAttributes Tag
    • Attribute Tag
    • IdentityRules Tag
    • Rule Tag
    • Term Tag
    • Indices Tag
    • Index Tag
    • Segment Tag
    • UserDefinedIndex Example
    • ScanHash Function
    • Cross-Attribute Compare CAC

  • OYSTERSourceDescriptor

    • 3- XML Declaration and Comments
    • OysterSourceDescriptor Tag
    • 2- Source Tag
    • ReferenceItems Tag
    • Items Tag

• 3-Attribute Based vs Record Based Matching for Identities

  • Example
    • Attribute Based
    • Record Based

• 4-Reference Sources

  • Examples from TextFiles
    • From Delimited Files
    • From Fixed Width Files
  • Examples from Database Tables
    • From Open Database Connectivity ODBC
    • From MySQL
    • From Microsoft SQL Server

• 5-Outputs

  • Identity Document

    • Root Tag
    • Metadata Tag
    • Identities Tag

  • Link Index

  • Identity Change Report
    • Sections
    • Change Report Detail Off
    • Change Report Detail On
  • Identity Merge Map
  • Log File
    • Summary Stats
    • Cluster Stats
    • Rule Stats
    • Index Stats
    • Resolution Stats
    • Timing Stats
  • Extended Log file

• 6-Other OYSTER Functionality

  • Kill Thread
  • 90 Percent Memory Warning

• 7-OYSTER User Defined Inverted Index

  • Inverted Index
  • Match Key
    • Match Key Example 1
  • Index Operation
  • Alignment of Index with Match Rules
  • Index Recall and Precision
    • Alignment and Scenarios
    • Index Fewer Attributes Strategy
    • Multiple Index Strategy
  • The Alignment Process
    • Rule Analysis
    • Index Design
    • Alignment Validation

• 8-Error Messages

• List of Oyster Functions by Usage