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POAnyway to group counts in MSSQL rows-columns which have similar names. For eg. Cisco, Cisco Systems & Cisco Systems Inc.?
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I'm trying to count devices by MAC vendors prefixes on a network. The results from the queries I'm getting back from the database have the counts but the names of vendors differ slightly like Cisco, Cisco Systems & Cisco Systems Inc. Is there anyway to add all of these and represent them as just Cisco ? I'll be displaying this information on a web front end. I am using PHP to retrieve data from this database. Cisco is just an example here. It could be any other MAC vendor with different lengths of name.
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Anyway to group counts in MSSQL rows-columns which have similar names. For eg. Cisco, Cisco Systems & Cisco Systems Inc.?
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1. COCan we assume that you already have a function that will decide what makes names "similar," and the question is just whether you can use that in a GROUP BY?
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2. CO@octern - No, that's the problem. I need to find a way to decide how I can decide what names are similar. But the way of a functions seems a good fit.
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