Posts tagged with: #Fts5
Full-Text Search: Using the Trigram Tokenizer Algorithm to Match Peoples Names
April 24, 2025
Leveraging Full Text Search and Trigram Tokenization for Efficient Name Matching
This article explains how to use SQLite's FTS5 module with the trigram tokenizer to perform efficient full-text searches, particularly for matching similar names in a large database. It covers setting up the virtual table, normalizing names, bulk inserting data, and executing searches that handle close but not exact matches
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