Question on sql commands using fpodbc

Ken Cole ken.m.cole at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 16:38:13 PDT 2018


If you are in Australia why aren’t you saying g’day to all the FP’ers here?
:-)

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 at 8:50 am, Laura Brody via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> 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.
> >
> > Wishing everyone a Happy Independence Day.  (Even those outside the
> > U.S.  Pop open a beverage and put some meat on the Barbie.)
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