Is there easy way to match word from a database table field with soundex?

Question

Hi Just Before going deep into soundex, wanted to ask quick qiestion.

1 - field in the table[title] contains a "Sentence that has WORD I am looking for"

Q - Is there are easy way to match the WORD using a sundex ?

Answer 1

SOUNDEX is a way to match Smith, Smythe and Smeathe while searching for Smith:

SELECT  *
FROM    names
WHERE   name_soundex = SOUNDEX('Smith')

name     name_soundex
--
Smith    S530
Smythe   S530
Smeathe  S530

What you need is called FULLTEXT indexing:

CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX fx_mytable_title ON mytable (title)

SELECT  *
FROM    mytable
WHERE   MATCH(title) AGAINST ('+fox')

title
--
A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog