Parsing a field in CFQUERY WHERE clause

I have a fairly large database that I need to run queries on. I have one field that represents where store items are stocked by aisle, section and bin. This location field is concatenated with underscore delimiters: aisle_section_bin . An example location might be 3_25_17.
I need to run queries where I parse this concatenated location field and essentially ask:
SELECT *
FROM MyData
WHERE aisle = '3' AND section '25' AND bin = '1'
Could someone please help me with house this would be done?
My database is fairly large, so I need my queries to be fairly efficient so my server does not timeout.
Thankyou

Hi,
I agree with Claus P; You need to move them to separate fields for a better searching;
I assume that you have those three values separately and in your database those values are concatenated with underscore.
If you sure that your data in the database is only with this format 3_25_17; You could think of using SUBSTR functions in oracle and then use ListGetAt Function in Coldfusion to find it.
Ex: SUBSTR(3_25_17,1) = <cfqueryparam value="#listGetAt(fieldValue, 1, "_")#" />

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