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Fuzzy-String Search: Find misspelled information with T-SQL

An optimized Damerau-Levenshtein Distance (DLD) algorithm for "fuzzy" string matching in Transact-SQL 2000-2008

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2014-01-10 (first published: 2012-09-18)

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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):

SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';

What is returned?