It may also be necessary for the folder where they were installed to be in the PATH environment variable.

Post the query that causes this problem.  Aggregates could be involved.  Alternatively, some kind of function could be involved, that would have to touch every row, just to then filter...

It's handy that you attached sample data, however...
1.) it's a spreadsheet.  Folks, on average, are not that interested in taking the "unnecessary risk" of downloading a spreadsheet from the...

What this sounds like it boils down to is:  TEST the fuzzy matching algorithm.   I'd be rather scientific about that kind of thing.  Be very specific about what you test,...

Whether or not it's the best choice is going to be heavily dependent on just how much other complexity is going on.   What you've shown here isn't complex enough on...

I can think of two ways to do this.   SSIS might work, if you can set up a For Each Loop Container that could loop through a list of the...