In my opinion, the first thing you should get is the list of terms used in a particular column ( whose answer I took from here ):
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Split
(
@RowData nvarchar(2000),
@SplitOn nvarchar(5)
)
RETURNS @RtnValue table
(
Id int identity(1,1),
Data nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
Declare @Cnt int
Set @Cnt = 1
While (Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)>0)
Begin
Insert Into @RtnValue (data)
Select
Data = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@RowData,1,Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)-1)))
Set @RowData = Substring(@RowData,Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)+1,len(@RowData))
Set @Cnt = @Cnt + 1
End
Insert Into @RtnValue (data)
Select Data = ltrim(rtrim(@RowData))
Return
END
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.SplitAll(@SplitOn nvarchar(5))
RETURNS @RtnValue table
(
Id int identity(1,1),
Data nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE My_Cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT Nome FROM dbo.clientes
DECLARE @description varchar(50)
OPEN My_Cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM My_Cursor INTO @description
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
INSERT INTO @RtnValue
SELECT Data FROM dbo.Split(@description, @SplitOn)
FETCH NEXT FROM My_Cursor INTO @description
END
CLOSE My_Cursor
DEALLOCATE My_Cursor
RETURN
END
SELECT DISTINCT Data FROM dbo.SplitAll(N' ')
With this word list, you can bring partitions of your table from the terms found. This is a human job, unfortunately, but with it, LIKE operations are more reasonable.
Also, if you do not want to use LIKE , my suggestion is to implement the Levenshtein distance function in SQL Server , which I transcribe below, of the response mentioned:
-- =============================================
-- Computes and returns the Levenshtein edit distance between two strings, i.e. the
-- number of insertion, deletion, and sustitution edits required to transform one
-- string to the other, or NULL if @max is exceeded. Comparisons use the case-
-- sensitivity configured in SQL Server (case-insensitive by default).
-- http://blog.softwx.net/2014/12/optimizing-levenshtein-algorithm-in-tsql.html
--
-- Based on Sten Hjelmqvist's "Fast, memory efficient" algorithm, described
-- at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13525/Fast-memory-efficient-Levenshtein-algorithm,
-- with some additional optimizations.
-- =============================================
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Levenshtein](
@s nvarchar(4000)
, @t nvarchar(4000)
, @max int
)
RETURNS int
WITH SCHEMABINDING
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @distance int = 0 -- return variable
, @v0 nvarchar(4000)-- running scratchpad for storing computed distances
, @start int = 1 -- index (1 based) of first non-matching character between the two string
, @i int, @j int -- loop counters: i for s string and j for t string
, @diag int -- distance in cell diagonally above and left if we were using an m by n matrix
, @left int -- distance in cell to the left if we were using an m by n matrix
, @sChar nchar -- character at index i from s string
, @thisJ int -- temporary storage of @j to allow SELECT combining
, @jOffset int -- offset used to calculate starting value for j loop
, @jEnd int -- ending value for j loop (stopping point for processing a column)
-- get input string lengths including any trailing spaces (which SQL Server would otherwise ignore)
, @sLen int = datalength(@s) / datalength(left(left(@s, 1) + '.', 1)) -- length of smaller string
, @tLen int = datalength(@t) / datalength(left(left(@t, 1) + '.', 1)) -- length of larger string
, @lenDiff int -- difference in length between the two strings
-- if strings of different lengths, ensure shorter string is in s. This can result in a little
-- faster speed by spending more time spinning just the inner loop during the main processing.
IF (@sLen > @tLen) BEGIN
SELECT @v0 = @s, @i = @sLen -- temporarily use v0 for swap
SELECT @s = @t, @sLen = @tLen
SELECT @t = @v0, @tLen = @i
END
SELECT @max = ISNULL(@max, @tLen)
, @lenDiff = @tLen - @sLen
IF @lenDiff > @max RETURN NULL
-- suffix common to both strings can be ignored
WHILE(@sLen > 0 AND SUBSTRING(@s, @sLen, 1) = SUBSTRING(@t, @tLen, 1))
SELECT @sLen = @sLen - 1, @tLen = @tLen - 1
IF (@sLen = 0) RETURN @tLen
-- prefix common to both strings can be ignored
WHILE (@start < @sLen AND SUBSTRING(@s, @start, 1) = SUBSTRING(@t, @start, 1))
SELECT @start = @start + 1
IF (@start > 1) BEGIN
SELECT @sLen = @sLen - (@start - 1)
, @tLen = @tLen - (@start - 1)
-- if all of shorter string matches prefix and/or suffix of longer string, then
-- edit distance is just the delete of additional characters present in longer string
IF (@sLen <= 0) RETURN @tLen
SELECT @s = SUBSTRING(@s, @start, @sLen)
, @t = SUBSTRING(@t, @start, @tLen)
END
-- initialize v0 array of distances
SELECT @v0 = '', @j = 1
WHILE (@j <= @tLen) BEGIN
SELECT @v0 = @v0 + NCHAR(CASE WHEN @j > @max THEN @max ELSE @j END)
SELECT @j = @j + 1
END
SELECT @jOffset = @max - @lenDiff
, @i = 1
WHILE (@i <= @sLen) BEGIN
SELECT @distance = @i
, @diag = @i - 1
, @sChar = SUBSTRING(@s, @i, 1)
-- no need to look beyond window of upper left diagonal (@i) + @max cells
-- and the lower right diagonal (@i - @lenDiff) - @max cells
, @j = CASE WHEN @i <= @jOffset THEN 1 ELSE @i - @jOffset END
, @jEnd = CASE WHEN @i + @max >= @tLen THEN @tLen ELSE @i + @max END
WHILE (@j <= @jEnd) BEGIN
-- at this point, @distance holds the previous value (the cell above if we were using an m by n matrix)
SELECT @left = UNICODE(SUBSTRING(@v0, @j, 1))
, @thisJ = @j
SELECT @distance =
CASE WHEN (@sChar = SUBSTRING(@t, @j, 1)) THEN @diag --match, no change
ELSE 1 + CASE WHEN @diag < @left AND @diag < @distance THEN @diag --substitution
WHEN @left < @distance THEN @left -- insertion
ELSE @distance -- deletion
END END
SELECT @v0 = STUFF(@v0, @thisJ, 1, NCHAR(@distance))
, @diag = @left
, @j = case when (@distance > @max) AND (@thisJ = @i + @lenDiff) then @jEnd + 2 else @thisJ + 1 end
END
SELECT @i = CASE WHEN @j > @jEnd + 1 THEN @sLen + 1 ELSE @i + 1 END
END
RETURN CASE WHEN @distance <= @max THEN @distance ELSE NULL END
END
Usage:
... WHERE dbo.Levenshtein(@Coluna1, @Coluna2, 5) <= 5
The maximum coefficient of difference need not be 5. By testing, you will know which coefficient to apply.
