I agree but I'm making rather good headway.

I've got a prototype creating an EIT with tokens and subtokens from a reference table as well as acurately calculating the similarity score...

No I'm not saying that at all. We have 2008 enterprise edition but the company is concerned at the licensing costs of 2012 enterprise edition.

I know but when we upgrade to sql server 2012 and begin to create packages in ssis sql server 2012 we wont be able to use the fuzzy components unless...

I know there is a Fuzzy Lookup and Fuzzy Grouping component in sql server but if you read my original post.

"My ultimate aim is to produce a fuzzy grouping ssis...

I found the answer.

I've developed a basic console application in C# to test the algorithms and so far they seem to be working perfectly.

Next step is to stick...