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From: exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: SOUNDEX (or equiv) source, Oracle FTP site
Summary: Soundex (or equiv) source, Oracle FTP site
Keywords: SOUNDEX, ORACLE, FTP
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.020725.6451@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 31 Aug 90 02:07:25 GMT
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Organization: Prentice Computer Centre
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I have been using the SOUNDEX function supplied with Oracle V5 and have
found it to be very convenient except that it may be too ambiguous. I
noticed that SOUNDEX only returns a 5 (or 4 - I forget) character string.
Is it possible that other soundex algorithms allow less ambiguity by making
use of more characters ? If so and if the source (pref. c) exists could
someone tell me how to get it, please ?

While I'm at it, are there any FTP sites holding various Oracle bits e.g.
forms, scripts and the like. ?

Thanks for any help

Nirad Sharma  (exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au)
Continuing Education Unit
The University of Queensland
AUSTRALIA