SQL Server
SQL Server
The task of matching strings between heterogeneous systems, especially that of matching personal or company names or addresses, is not easy with SQL Server's limited set of built-in string SQL functions. Here is a C# CLR-Assembly (with source code) for SQL Server with some advanced string-handling functions that may help:
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LTrim - like Oracle's LTRIM function.
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InitCap - like Oracle's INITCAP function
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FlattenCharSet - Replace western characters with diacritics with best-choice, non-diacritic characters
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StripPunctuationMarks - Remove all punctiation marks from the given string.