I have a column of business names. In some cases the name is an alias and I want to relate it to the parent company so a query will show the real company. In both cases the data is mostly human entered and isn't consistent. A simple example is one might be entered variously as "Mike's Plumbing", "Mike's Plumbing LLC", "Mike's Plumbing, LLC". I plan on having a hash table to resolve the variations, but I know in the future new ones will crop up. If I was executing a select query I'd use a wildcard like "Mike's Plumbing%". Is there any way to do that or something similar with a relationship key?
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