--- title: Fuzzy Matching in Snowflake: A Non-Exhaustive Guide description: A step-by-step guide to building a 4-stage fuzzy matching pipeline entirely within Snowflake, designed to match messy or misspelled records to canonical names.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fuzzy-matching-in-snowflake-a-non-exhaustive-guide-y3o5gsqqy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fuzzy Matching in Snowflake: A Non-Exhaustive Guide | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to building a 4-stage fuzzy matching pipeline entirely within Snowflake, designed to match messy or misspelled records to canonical names.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fuzzy-matching-in-snowflake-a-non-exhaustive-guide-y3o5gsqqy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Y3o5gSQQY.png og:image:alt: Fuzzy Matching in Snowflake: A Non-Exhaustive Guide og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Fuzzy Matching in Snowflake: A Non-Exhaustive Guide **[Snowflake Community](https://daily.dev/sources/snowflake_comm)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to building a 4-stage fuzzy matching pipeline entirely within Snowflake, designed to match messy or misspelled records to canonical names. The pipeline progresses from cheap to expensive: (1) regex-based string normalization for exact matches, (2) Cortex Search hybrid semantic/keyword search to filter candidates without a costly cross join, (3) Jaro-Winkler similarity scoring on the top 5 candidates returned by Cortex Search, and (4) LLM inference via AI_COMPLETE with Claude for the hardest remaining cases. Each stage filters out matched records before passing the remainder to the next, optimizing for both cost and accuracy. Low-confidence LLM matches are routed to a manual review queue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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