----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Schwartz" <je...@gii.co.jp> > > [JS] This isn't the only place I have to deal with fuzzy data. :-( > Discretion prohibits further comment.
Heh. What you *really* need, is a LART. Preferably one of the spiked variety. > A full-text index would work if I were only looking for one title at > a time, but I don't know if that would be a good idea if I have a list of > 10000 titles. That would pretty much require either 10000 separate queries > or a very, very long WHERE clause. Yes, unfortunately. You should see if you can introduce a form of data normalisation - say, shadow fields with corrected entries, or functionality in the application that suggests correct entries based on what the user typed. Or, if the money's there, you could have a look at Amazon Mechanical Turk (yes, really) for cheap-ish data correction. -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
