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

Stripping out data is a bad idea. Many towns will have dozens of variations of the same street - Oak Street, Oak Road, Oak Lane, Oak Circle, Oak Court, Oak Avenue, etc... As mentioned above converting to the canonical USPS abbreviation is a better approach.