From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@audit-commission.gov.uk>
Subject: Re: Fuzzy match for ORACLE
Date: 2000/06/06
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you could also look at the paid for intermedia option with stem and fuzzy
searching etc.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Martin Buhl" <mbr@bankinvest.dk> wrote in message
news:6s8fjs4mgu38mj3t9upfv8fk56vqpq86mu@4ax.com...
> Hey Everybody
>
> I need to do some fuzzy matching of new data and the data allready in
> the db, before updating the db.
> I wonder if I can find any PL SQL fuzzy match functions written by
> other programmers that I could use.
> What is the easiest way to implement fuzzymatching with ORACL ?
>
> My only other choice (as I see it) is to select all data form the db
> and bring it to the client and then run it through a fuzzy match
> function that I write my self in C++.
> I would really like to avoid this practice.
>
> So if anybody knows what the easiest way to do server side fuzzy
> matching with oracle is, your help will be appreciated.
>
>
> //Martin
>