Can you please translate in English what do you want to achieve? Better provide input and desired output.

>I want to find all rows representing records that have at least one exact match on a varchar(100) column
>
>I am current doing
>
>

>SELECT 
>        name
>       ,symbol
>      ,from_date
>      ,thru_date
>  FROM [iSource100].[dbo].[Symbology]
>  where exists ( select Name, COUNT(symbol) as cntsym from Symbology
>  where thru_date > GETDATE()
>  group by Name having COUNT(symbol) > 1 ) 
>  and thru_date > GETDATE()
>order by name
>

>
>but from the results I'm getting it appears a 'match' for grouping seems to be based on just the first three characters of the Name column.
>
>How can I tell it to group by the entire contents of Name being an exact match?
>
>TIA