Sure, I can write a function for it in Python or something…but how can I do it in MYSQL?
WHERE title = "heart of darkness" more or less 3 characters...
Sure, I can write a function for it in Python or something…but how can
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Sure, I can write a function for it in Python or something…but how can I do it in MYSQL?
WHERE title = "heart of darkness" more or less 3 characters...
A similar issue was discussed in this SO question, and here’s a link from the accepted answer that presents a computation of Levenshtein distance in MYSQL.
Personally, however, I would avoid the stored-procedure approach and just implement it in the driving language (be it Python, PHP or whatever you use to interface the DB).