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Fuzzy Match won't match Identical records together

ayxu001
6 - Meteoroid

I have set up the Fuzzy match tool to match on an employee ID as the unique record, with Match criteria for Phone and Business Address.

 

I have some records where it is a 98% match and corrects Dr with Drive. But I have some records where they are identical, yet no matching score is computed:

 

ID1ID2MatchScoreMatchScore_PhoneMatchScore_Bus_AddressMatchKey
G9AAAAPG9AAAAP   1649213|1400
G9AAAAPG9AAAAP   1649213|500
G9AAAAPG9AAAAP   1649213|PLFRT
G9AAAAPG9AAAAP   1649213|PRK
G9AAAAPG9AAAAP   1649213|ST
      
018HHHG018HHHG   1649213|1440
018HHHG018HHHG   1649213|500
018HHHG018HHHG   1649213|PLFRT
018HHHG018HHHG   1649213|PRK
018HHHG018HHHG   1649213|ST

 

They have the same match keys, but it does not associate them together. Any help is appreciated, spent a couple hours on this and it doesn't make sense, especially when other records are matching, some with 100%, some with 98%, etc. From my understanding, as long as ALL keys match, it should associate them.

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ayxu001
6 - Meteoroid

I was expecting to see a match like this:

 

 

ID1

ID2

MatchScore

MatchScore_Phone

MatchScore_Bus_Address

MatchKey

G9AAAAP

018HHHG

 100

 100

 100

1649213|1400

G9AAAAP

018HHHG

 100

 100

 100

1649213|500

G9AAAAP

018HHHG

 100

 100

 100

1649213|PLFRT

G9AAAAP

018HHHG

 100

 100

 100

1649213|PRK

G9AAAAP

018HHHG

 100

 100

 100

1649213|ST

 

 

ayxu001
6 - Meteoroid

After researching this issue and confirming with Alteryx mothership, the digits in the address need to be an exact match and are not part of the fuzzy match logic. Because of a 1 digit difference (not a 1 letter difference) in my example, the fuzzy match will not be applied, even if the overall match score would still be 98%.

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