I don't know how it was intially entered into the table. All I know is that the table has not been updated since January, 2007. I have searched...

I think that the Soundexe column is derived from the company name because in a Stored Procedure used later, the following SQL is executed:

SELECT DISTINCT C.COMPANYNAME, CS.SOUNDEXE, D.COMPANYNAME, D.SALESREPID,...

Thanks, but I must not have explained myself well. I don't know what the algorithm is that converts the 'CompanyName' to 'Soundexe'. For example, CompanyName = 'Accenture', and...