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Re: Searching by Name

On 19-Feb-2014 15:01 -0800, Holm, Paul wrote:
Looking for insight or recommendations or experiences with the
following:

A client has SQL based web application that searches multiple
databases on different systems on many fields but in particular:
NAME

Issue: User is looking for a person named "Joe", they type Joe into
the search and don't get the full results because databases are
storing the name as "Joseph". Same thing with Nikki and Nicole.

Obviously, we can use SQL wildcards % and LIKE so you could search by
"Jo%" or "Ni%" but users may not do that. I've started to analyze
FULL TEXT searches. Anyone already been down this road?


Name variants are part of the information I offered in the following message [link], with reference to IBM InfoSphere Global Name Analytics and possibly also available for the site noted as providing a much smaller database:
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5596706/parsing-a-full-name-into-its-constituents>


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