Luis Cazares (1/16/2014)
I just love when people continue to post to get better solutions.Mr. Magoo, it's really nice how you handle the start of a word. However, it might generate problems with accentuated words (which are uncommon in English but might occur with words "imported" from other languages). It seems that changing the collation to Latin1_General_CI_AI can solve the problem but might reduce the performance.
Thanks Luis, I agree there are compromises, as mine will handle O'Brien as a name, where others posted so far don't. I agree though that accented characters should probably be handled - even in English - we are a very multicultural society these days and it's not uncommon to get almost any name possible. It's just a bit late now for me to be bothered :w00t:
MM
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