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inconsistent data within a column

From: Reggie Crawford <rcrawford_at_hatespam.awod.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:46:03 -0400
Message-ID: <362F8B7B.C55176A1@hatespam.awod.com> 





Is there a quick and easy way to make data within a column consistent?



For example, a company name could be represented 10 different ways in
the column name field, so if I run a query looking for all customers
from 'Hewlett-Packard', I miss the ones from 'HP' , 'Hewlett Packard',
'H.P.', and of course any misspellings. It would take me for ever to
manually make this consistent.



Thanks,



Reggie



Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 14:46:03 CDT












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