What are ways to match street addresses in SQL Server?

Question

We have a column for street addresses:

123 Maple Rd.
321 1st Ave.
etc...

Is there any way to match these addresses t

Answer 1

I think the first step for you is to better define how generous or not you're going to be regarding differing addresses. For example, which of these match and which don't:

123 Maple Street
123 Maple St
123 maple street
123 mpale street
123 maple
123. maple st
123 N maple street
123 maple ave
123 maple blvd

Are there both a Maple Street and a Maple Blvd in the same area? What about Oak Street vs Oak Blvd.

For example, where I live there many streets/roads/blvds/ave that are all named Owasso. I live on Owasso Street, which connects to North Owasso Blvd, which connects to South Owasso Blvd. However, there is only one Victoria Ave.

Given that reality, you must either have a database of all road names, and look for the closest road (and deal with the number seperately)

OR

Make an decision ahead of time what you'll insist on and what you won't.