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peitech
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Posted - 2006-07-19 : 10:18:20

Hey guys,

New to sql, even newer to sql2005 hehe,

created and run the following query:

SELECT DISTINCT tblFund.Fund_id, tblFund.Fund_name, tblFund.Fund_short_name, tblFund.Fund_Insert_date, tblFund_Name_Match.Fund_reported_name
FROM         tblFund INNER JOIN
                      tblFund_Name_Match ON tblFund.Fund_id = tblFund_Name_Match.Fund_id

Now I wish to compare the text in the fields Fund_name and Fund_reported_name, ideally with some kind of scale- where 1 means they are the same and 5 means they are totally different etc.

Some initial research led me to Full Text Search, however, when right clicking a table this option was greyed out. I thought perhaps it was not installed, I typed the following in:

select
fulltextserviceproperty('isFulltextInstalled')

Which gave me the result 1- indicating it is indeed installed.

Is this the right thing I am tying to do? Are there other options?

Thanks guys!

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