SQL Server Fuzzy Search med procentdel af match

Det bedste, jeg har været i stand til at gøre, er at forenkle noget af forespørgslen og ændre den til en funktion med tabelværdi. Skalære funktioner er notorisk dårlige udførende, og fordelen ved en inline TVF er, at forespørgselsdefinitionen udvides til hovedforespørgslen, ligesom en visning.

Dette reducerer eksekveringstiden markant på de test, jeg har lavet.

ALTER FUNCTION dbo.FuzySearchTVF (@Reference VARCHAR(200), @Target VARCHAR(200))
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN
(   WITH N (n) AS 
    (   SELECT  TOP (ISNULL(CASE WHEN DATALENGTH(@Reference) > DATALENGTH(@Target) 
                                    THEN DATALENGTH(@Reference) 
                                ELSE DATALENGTH(@Target) 
                            END, 0))    
                ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY n1.n)
        FROM    (VALUES (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1)) AS N1 (n)
        CROSS JOIN (VALUES (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1), (1)) AS N2 (n)
        CROSS JOIN (VALUES (1), (1)) AS N3 (n)
        WHERE   @Reference IS NOT NULL AND @Target IS NOT NULL
    ), Src AS
    (   SELECT  Reference = CASE WHEN DATALENGTH(@Reference) > DATALENGTH(@Target) THEN @Reference
                                ELSE @Reference + REPLICATE('_', DATALENGTH(@Target) - DATALENGTH(@Reference))
                            END,
                Target = CASE WHEN DATALENGTH(@Target) > DATALENGTH(@Reference) THEN @Target
                                ELSE @Target + REPLICATE('_', DATALENGTH(@Target) - DATALENGTH(@Reference))
                            END,
                WordLength = CASE WHEN DATALENGTH(@Reference) > DATALENGTH(@Target) THEN DATALENGTH(@Reference) ELSE DATALENGTH(@Target) END
        WHERE   @Reference IS NOT NULL 
        AND     @Target IS NOT NULL
        AND     @Reference != @Target
    ), Scores AS
    (   SELECT  seq = t1.n ,
                Letter = SUBSTRING(s.Reference, t1.n, 1),
                s.WordLength ,
                LetterScore = s.WordLength - ISNULL(MIN(ABS(t1.n - t2.n)), s.WordLength)
        FROM    Src AS s
                CROSS JOIN N AS t1
                INNER JOIN N AS t2
                    ON SUBSTRING(@Target, t2.n, 1) = SUBSTRING(s.Reference, t1.n, 1)
        WHERE   @Reference IS NOT NULL 
        AND     @Target IS NOT NULL
        AND     @Reference != @Target
        GROUP BY t1.n, SUBSTRING(s.Reference, t1.n, 1), s.WordLength
    )
    SELECT  [Score] = 100 
    WHERE   @Reference = @Target
    UNION ALL
    SELECT  0
    WHERE   @Reference IS NULL OR @Target IS NULL
    UNION ALL
    SELECT  CAST(SUM(LetterScore) * 100.0 / MAX(WordLength * WordLength) AS NUMERIC(5, 2))
    FROM    Scores
    WHERE   @Reference IS NOT NULL 
    AND     @Target IS NOT NULL
    AND     @Reference != @Target
    GROUP BY WordLength
);

Og dette ville blive kaldt som:

SELECT  f.Score
FROM    dbo.Customer AS c
        CROSS APPLY [dbo].[FuzySearch]('First Name Middle Name Last Name', c.FirstName) AS f

Det er dog stadig en ret kompleks funktion, og afhængigt af antallet af poster i din kundetabel, tror jeg, at det bliver lidt af en udfordring at få det ned til 1 sekund.