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There are two tables in 2 different databases one table consists of Salutations example Mr, Miss and other table has names with Salutation example Mr.XYZ, Miss.ABC so I need a query which will compare the two tables and gives only those names from table 1 which are of matching salutations.
Example :
Table 1 Table 2
Salutation column Name column
Mr., Mr.Abc
Miss., Mr.XYZ
Mr. & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Def
Jr. xyz
So the query needs to compare two tables and give the output as
Mr.Abc,
Mr.Xyz
Mr. & Mrs. Def

Answer 1

I think you want join query with like:
select t2.*, t1.salutation
from table2 t2 join
table1 t1
on t2.name like concat(t1.saluation, '%');
The one caveat is that this can return more than one match. For instance, anything that matches "Mr. & Mrs." would also match "Mr.". To fix this, you can choose the longest match, using apply:
select t2.*, t1.salutation
from table2 t2 cross apply
(select top (1) t1.*
from table1 t1
where t2.name like concat(t1.saluation, '%')
order by len(t1.saluation) desc
) t1;

Answer 2

try this:
SELECT T2.*, T1.Salutation
FROM MyDatabase2.Myschema2.Table2 as T2
INNER JOIN MyDatabase1.Myschema1.Table1 as T1
ON T2.Name LIKE '%'+T1.Salutation+'%'