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diesel
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Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2003 5:51 AM
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Hi,
Could anyone help me with T-SQL to match names. I have to match names from one database to bank account details entered by clients in another. The problem is that clients enter full name, initials, fistname last and lastname first, spouses names etc. for account details. Huge dilemma!
Thanks in advance,
diesel
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j.o.s.
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Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:40 AM
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Instead of trying to compare single column values to multivalue columns, look at using the like operator to search through the multi-value columns looking for instances of the name you are searching. If you post your schema, we can show you the T-SQL.
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rnelson_shs
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Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:18 PM
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I agree that seeing the schema will up. The logic will might be a bit complex, may have to have more than 1 temp table, but again without the schema (from both databases), it's a hard call.
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Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:14 PM
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Maybe more of the business rules aswell, how do you determine if Joe Doe is really Joe Doe in the other database, both maybe married to a Sue.
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David.Poole
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Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:16 AM
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How are you going to cater for Rob, Bob, Robert, Robin, Bert. They could all be the same person or they could be all different.
Speaking as someone who has done more name and address matching than I've had hot dinners this is not something you should do on financially sensitive data such as bank accounts.
The best you could hope for would be and exact name and address match, but that is likely to be about 40% of cases if you are lucky.
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diesel
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Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:47 AM
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All valid points. I have done a link to the QAS package we use, (ACE in the USA) which narrows it down. I guess that considering it's not the brightest of requests I have had from Customer Services I will send the extract to them to wade through. Revenge is sweet.
Thanks for the help!
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emoore 99634
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Posted Monday, September 24, 2012 7:13 AM
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I would use Fuzzy Matching in SSIS. Throw everything to temp table. Remove your direct matches and then fuzzy matching the rest. Sorry can't give more details, but I did this in a project once when we were trying to correlate various school lists across government agencies. A joy that was.
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Posted Monday, September 24, 2012 7:30 AM
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I don't think the OP will notice because he hasn't logged in since 2009....
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Posted Monday, September 24, 2012 8:57 AM
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True, but others reading through a forum might be looking for ideas on how to tackle problems like this.
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Jeff Moden
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emoore 99634 (9/24/2012)
True, but others reading through a forum might be looking for ideas on how to tackle problems like this.
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