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> I found FULLTEXT (MATCH/AGAINST) indexes and the SOUNDEX function. Are
> there other MySQL features that help with Fuzzy searching?
>
> Soundex seems very useful, but I'm not sure how to apply it to multi-word
> strings.
>
> I'd also be interested in pointers to general info on writing f
Here's the approach I used for searching through a table that needed to
search 7 different fields in the table and weight them differently:
I run through this expression for each word that's split from the
searchstring and through each field with different weights given to each
field. Then th
I found FULLTEXT (MATCH/AGAINST) indexes and the SOUNDEX function. Are
there other MySQL features that help with Fuzzy searching?
Soundex seems very useful, but I'm not sure how to apply it to multi-word
strings.
I'd also be interested in pointers to general info on writing fuzzy searches.
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