def METHOD_NAME(text: str) -> str:
    """Normalize the string for comparison of the DB schema. That means removing all
    C/C++ style comments, whitespaces, newlines and moving all to lowercase
    """
    def replacer(match: Any) -> str:
        s = match.group(0)
        if s.startswith('/'):
            return ' '  # note: a space and not an empty string
        # else
        return s
    pattern = re.compile(
        r'//.*?\n|/\*.*?\*/',
        re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE,
    )
    return re.sub(pattern, replacer, text).replace(' ', '').replace('\n', '').replace('"', "'").lower()  # noqa: E501