Oh and BTW, I was getting times of around 65000 ms (for PatternSplitCM) on my clocked down laptop against the 1,000,000 rows of random phone numbers I was generating in the test harness I gave you.
While not directly comparable due to different machines, once you get PatternSplitCM working, I think you should see quite a difference.
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.
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