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Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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SOUNDEX

The SOUNDEX function returns a character string containing the phonetic representation of a text expression. This function lets you compare words that are spelled differently, but sound alike in English.

See:

For a discussion of how the phonetic representation is constructed, see the SOUNDEX function in Oracle Database SQL Language Reference.

Return Value

The same data type as text_exp.

Syntax

SOUNDEX(text_exp)

Parameters

text_exp

The expression for which you want a phonetic representation. It can be any of the text data types.