You’ve got a staging table with millions of rows, and you want to join that over to a production table and update the contents. However, when you try to do it all in one big statement, you end up with lock escalation, large transaction log usage, slow replication to Availability Groups, and angry users with pitchforks gathered in the Zoom lobby.
In this post, I’ll explain how to use a combination of two separate topics that I’ve blogged about recently:
Fast ordered deletes: how to delete just a few rows from a really large table The virtual output tables: how