>>Users swear that my queries run faster (snicker).
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>Lets not give Marcus the wrong impression. Adding any UDF to an SQL will impact performance in a negative way. If the query must plow through large tables the impact can be significant.

That is why I added the snicker (damn I forgot the html stuff is hidden). The performance will be slower, but since the users have feedback they will feel the query is faster.

Right you are!