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  1. May 25th, 2004, 09:59 AM #1
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    Percent LIKE - Matching

    How do you come up with percentages for how close of a match a certain result is to a query that contains a LIKE in the WHERE statement?

    And if that's easy enough, how do I order them in the best match order?

    OH, and I'm using MS SQL Server and PHP although as long as someone can give me the SQL theory, I can figure out the rest.
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  2. May 25th, 2004, 10:10 AM #2
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    There was a similar question a while ago, which I gave an answer to. It might be close to what you want:

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    Thanks... I'll look into that.
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  4. May 25th, 2004, 02:11 PM #4
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    Also look into soundex. There's plenty of free code and different ways to employ it;
    and at it's core it is essentially a "give me the nearest match" methodology.
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