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Hi,

I developed the following SP to stop long running jobs and I am using it for a while with no issues:

--********************************************

--Procedure to Stop Long running jobs

--Usage: exec dbo.usp_stop_long_running_jobs 2, '[0-9]%',...

Thanks for the script.

It worked for me on SQL Server 2005.

I created a job with this ActiveX script and it was just perfect.

Maybe I will think about changing the...

Hi Adam,

I suggest you to try string matching function I developed and was using for years. This function compares two strings based on sequence of letters in the strings.

if...

OK,

Address matching isn't quite exactly related to the topic, but of course it's related to name matching somehow. Because of the scale of the address matching topic I will not...

Hi,

In my case I had also Middle Name involved in matching process.

Also we could have initials instead of full names which actually makes it more complicated,

and even more complicated...

Hi,

Article is very interesting.

I use to work with name and address matching for a while.

Never tried Jaro Winkler algorithm and want to thank Ira for that.

What striked my mind is...