SQL Query - 20mil records - Best practice to return information

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Published on 2010-04-02T09:01:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 9:03 UTC
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I have a SQL database that has the following table:

Table: PhoneRecords

ID(identity Seed)
FirstName
LastName
PhoneNumber
ZipCode

Very simple straight forward table. This table has over 20million records. I am looking for the best way to do queries that pull out records based off area codes from the table. For instance here is an example query that I have done.

SELECT phonenumber, firstname FROM [PhoneRecords] WHERE (phone LIKE '2012042%') OR (phone LIKE '2012046%') OR (phone LIKE '2012047%') OR (phone LIKE '2012083%') OR (phone LIKE '2012088%') OR (phone LIKE '2012841%')

As you can see this is an ugly query, but it would get the job done (if I wasn't running into timeout issues)

Can anyone tell me the best way for speed/optimization to do the above query to display the results? Currently that query above takes around 2 hours to complete on a 9gb 1600mhz ram, i7 930 quadcore OC'd 4.01ghz. I obviously have the computer power required to do such a query, but still takes too long for queries.

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