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The above will pull out the information that I want. What I would like to do is remove this information from complete_name and replace complete_name with the new version (minus the regexp match) and put the regexp matches into a seperate column called flags.
Things of importance. All flags are 2 characters long and all capitals. There may be multiple flags per a single entry. The table has about 3 million records on it so speed is a must. It doesn't matter if the information is moved into a comma delimited varchar or an enum.