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A method for configuring the operation of the software of a data as a service (DAAS) system during run time is described. The configuring includes receiving a match query from a customer relationship management system that transmitted the match query responsive to a user using an interface to trigger an update of records in the customer relationship management system that were previously imported from the DAAS system, querying for records in the dataset that match records in the customer relationship management system previously imported from the DAAS system, the querying configured at run time according to metadata that identifies, for records in the dataset, a field to match on and a match threshold, and producing a match query result that includes records in the dataset to be imported to update records that were previously imported from the DAAS system.