I just thought it would be a nice fyi for someone and maybe start a nice dialogue about the query optimizer, etc.

But thanks for trying to help.

I would rather not, it my companies code, not mine.

All I did was replace the table names and the function name.

Plus I am really not asking for a fix, I...

This is not the actual code it is changed for your viewing pleasure.

The code of the function just strips an email address of its...