String Similarity II

String Similarity I

The String Distance I

T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search II

In the last article, we examined fuzzy string matching in SQL Server 2025 with a few new functions. We know comparing strings has always been hard when we don't have great data quality. If we need exact matches, SQL Server works great. However, we often expect users to enter values without typos and know what […]

T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Fuzzy String Search I

Comparing strings has always been hard when we don't have great data quality. If we need exact matches, SQL Server works great. However, we often expect users to enter values without typos and know what values they want to find. Or at least know part of the string. However, matching with wildcards or partial strings […]

Implementing Fuzzy Search in SQL Server Using New Inbuilt Functions

Learn about the new string similarity functions in Azure SQL Database.

Fuzzy-String Search: Find misspelled information with T-SQL

An optimized Damerau-Levenshtein Distance (DLD) algorithm for "fuzzy" string matching in Transact-SQL 2000-2008

Roll Your Own Fuzzy Match / Grouping (Jaro Winkler) - T-SQL

Roll Your Own Fuzzy Match / Grouping (Jaro Winkler) - T-SQL