Question

I’m trying to do address matches between an array of three-word strings (each an address) and a column (“address”) in a SQL Server database. For example I have a string 123 main st in this array variable and an entry from the column of interest with 123 main st. #A1. The following are what I’d like my query or script to do.

• find this entry 123 main st. #A1
• find any entries with strings 1123, main, and st
• ignore order
• ignore letter case

What’s an efficient and fast way to approach this problem? I’m doing this in the following way. This is how I’m doing it right now:

SELECT * 
FROM some_table 
WHERE UPPER(address) LIKE UPPER('123%') 
AND UPPER(address) LIKE UPPER('%main%') 
AND UPPER(address) LIKE '%st%';`

Answer 1

I ended up keeping what I’m doing in the OP. It works for my purpose.