Fuzzy lookup without Ms-SQL

Hi
Normally one needs for fuzzy lookup to load a (lookup) table in MS-SQL. Is it also possible to use / define such a table in Excel? I mean, is it possible to do fuzzy lookup without MS-SQL?
Thanks!
Gabi
gec

Hi gec,
Yes, we should write something in the Extended Properties to control the different excel files.
If the excel file version is Excel 2007 and later with .xlsx extension, we should use Microsoft ACE OLEDB 12.0 and set the property with “Excel 12.0”.
If the excel file version is Excel 2003 with .xls extension, we should use Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 or Microsoft ACE OLEDB 12.0 and set the property with “Excel 8.0”.
The following document is for your reference:
https://www.connectionstrings.com/excel/
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
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Could someone from the dev team please share as much details as you're comfortable with regarding the
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Hi Andres,
Fuzzy Lookup matches input records that are "dirty" (because of misspellings, truncations, missing or inserted tokens, null fields, unexpected abbreviations, and other irregularities) with clean records in a reference table. Fuzzy Lookup can help
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Hi all,
we have upgraded to SQL Server 2008 R2 from SQL Server 2008 and since then our fuzzy matching process has failed when trying to re-use existing index with the error:
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Hi Fran,
The error may occur due to a memory issue such as the Fuzzy Lookup task consumes high memory buffers. Please try the following steps:
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I am using Excel 2013, I have installed fuzzy lookup, it got installed without any hassle but it doesn't show up in Excel.
Load behavior of fuzzy add-in in COM Add-ins shows "A runtime error occurred during the loading of the COM Add-ins."
If I try to run Add-in then I get following error:
"The common language runtime could not be loaded by C:\Users\Vicky\AppData\Local\Apps\Microsoft\Fuzzy Lookup Add-In For Excel\Bin\FuzzyLookupAddInForExcel.vsto|vstolocal. Contact your administrator for further assistance."

Hi,
Based on the error message, this issue usually occur with fuzzy lookup not installed completely. Would you like to tell me where did you download the add-in? I tested to download
here and installed/worked well in my local environment ( Windows 8.1 64bit and Office 2013 32bit). If you did not download from here, please try this installation copy.
Then, if you were also download with above link, I recommend we clean-remove it and re-install it with
Windows clean boot.
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Uninstall any previous versions of Fuzzy Lookup Add-In for Excel. Folder path:
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I'm running a SSIS package on a 64 bit machine that has to run in 32 bit runtime as several data sources are from excel.
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(F7C:16C0) 07/21/10 11:24:37, ACTION, SQLDUMPER_UNKNOWN_APP.EXE,     ProcessID = 4772
(F7C:16C0) 07/21/10 11:24:37, ACTION, SQLDUMPER_UNKNOWN_APP.EXE,     ThreadId = 0
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Is there anyway fix the above error and to run my package with this fuzzy lookup within a 32 bit runtime on a 64 bit machine?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
It's easy to reproduce, this seems to be a problem with the x64 fuzzy lookup task:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/488387/fuzzy-lookup-triggers-sqldumper-even-with-very-small-dataset-with-run64bitruntime-set-to-false
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Hello Experts,
Could someone please tell me the use of lookup, fuzzy lookup and fuzzy grouping tasks giving one example of each?
I know the work what these tasks do but I want to know in which scenario and for what functionality do we use these tasks?
Appreciate if you write down your own experiences.
Please no URL's of MSDN/TechNet and so on. I am tired reading it.
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Hey everyone,
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fuzzy lookup for match similarities between the data sets. When my data flow task reaches my fuzzy lookup, a DOS box pops up for a second and then my packages finishes with a message of "Finished. Cancelled". The last message in my execution results
displays: "Information: Execute phase is beginning". Again, there are no excel files being processed or utilized in this package. I've tried running my packages both in 32 bit and 64 bit mode but no luck. I've also tried the advice listed
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