Question on sql commands using fpodbc

[Bruce Easton]

Ah - maybe someone is in Australia. Hope everyone had a nice 4th.

Ken:  "filePro's fuzzy search [is not] Soundex-based"

That's good to know.  That gives the developer even more options 
(considering pure filepro solutions plus those that may interface with SQL).

Bruce

On 7/5/18 6:50 PM, Laura Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
> You guys aren't very observant......
>
>
> Laura Brody
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list
>> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>>> Someone replied off list to explain to me that the "like" operator in SQL
>>> matches patterns, so for certain purposes that might be desired.  And
>> that
>>> one would expect output from filepro's fuzzy search to be more like SQL'
>>> Soundex function since they are evidently both based on Soundex.
>> I don't know where you got the idea that filePro's fuzzy search was
>> Soundex-based, but it's not.  It's a patented "proximity search"
>> algorithm licensed by fPTech from a third party.  Soundex is a whole
>> other animal, and is a simple "matches / doesn't match" value.
>>
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