SQL - similar data in column

Question

Is there any way to find similar results in column. Example:

I want query return from table data without 4 green tree because there is no similar data to g

Answer 1

You could use SOUNDEX to do this.

Sample data;

CREATE TABLE #SampleData (Column1 int, Column2 varchar(10))
INSERT INTO #SampleData (Column1, Column2)
VALUES
(1,'blue car')
,(2,'red doll')
,(3,'blue cars')
,(4,'green tree')
,(5,'red dolly')

The following code will use soundex to create a list of similar entries in column2. It then uses a different sub query to see how many occurrences of that soundex field appear;

SELECT
a.GroupingField
,a.Title
,b.SimilarFields
FROM (
        SELECT
        SOUNDEX(Column2) GroupingField
        ,MAX(Column2) Title --Just return a unique title for this soundex group
        FROM #SampleData
        GROUP BY SOUNDEX(Column2)
      ) a
LEFT JOIN   (
                SELECT
                SOUNDEX(Column2) GroupingField
                ,COUNT(Column2) SimilarFields --How many fields are in the soundex group?
                FROM #SampleData
                GROUP BY SOUNDEX(Column2)
            ) b
ON a.GroupingField = b.GroupingField
WHERE b.SimilarFields > 1

The results look like this (I've left the soundex field in to show you what it looks like);

GroupingField   Title       SimilarFields
B400            blue cars   2
R300            red dolly   2

Some further reading on soundex https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms187384.aspx

Edit: as per your request, to get the original data you may as well push into a temp table, change the query i've given you to put an INTO before the FROM statement;

SELECT
a.GroupingField
,a.Title
,b.SimilarFields
INTO #Duplicates
FROM (
        SELECT
        SOUNDEX(Column2) GroupingField
        ,MAX(Column2) Title --Just return a unique title for this soundex group
        FROM #SampleData
        GROUP BY SOUNDEX(Column2)
      ) a
LEFT JOIN   (
                SELECT
                SOUNDEX(Column2) GroupingField
                ,COUNT(Column2) SimilarFields --How many fields are in the soundex group?
                FROM #SampleData
                GROUP BY SOUNDEX(Column2)
            ) b
ON a.GroupingField = b.GroupingField
WHERE b.SimilarFields > 1

Then use the following query to link back to your original data;

SELECT
a.GroupingField
,a.Title
,a.SimilarFields
,b.Column1
,b.Column2
FROM #Duplicates a
JOIN #SampleData b
ON a.GroupingField = SOUNDEX(b.Column2)
ORDER BY a.GroupingField

Would give the following result;

GroupingField   Title       SimilarFields   Column1     Column2
B400            blue cars   2               1           blue car
B400            blue cars   2               3           blue cars
R300            red dolly   2               5           red dolly
R300            red dolly   2               2           red doll

Remember to

DROP TABLE #Differences