Search for last name by any spelling

I am tring to do a search in MSSQL on a column in the database. If the user types in the lastname field smiths or smeth, the records return would be anything near that spelling. I am looking for all the 'smith' last name in the column and I have tried every which way with the percent. And I am not returning any records. Here is my current code. and lastname like '%#form.lname#'
thanks

This may be too much work, but you could use the soundex library at CFLIb to go through your DB, converting the names and putting them in a new column of the table (soundex_lastname). Then you could soundex() the user input in the query and compare it to the soundex_lastname field in the database - that way your DB doesn't have to support soundex.
Note, that soundex only really works well with anglicised names, it doesn't work very well for international names or any other text as far as I can see. Check out the link for more information.

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interface Node<T> {
    T getData();
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