I wish to join two tables on likeness, not equality, of character strings. Soundex does not work. I am using the Levenstein edit distance, written in SQL, a very costly test, and I am in no position to write it in C and link it to MySQL--and joining on equality takes a fraction of a second, and this takes hours. Any good ideas?
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