Lookup tables are widely used in database applications for good reasons. Usually, a lookup table has a small number of rows and looking it up with a join is fast, especially when the table is already cached. Recently, I needed to update every row in many relatively large tables, each of which was identically structured, had ~25 million ...

It’s a well known good practice to control the batch size when you perform large data changes. For instance, you may need to purge a large amount of data monthly, and if you delete them all in one shot, you may blow up your transaction log. Therefore, it's wise that you chop up the total amount of data to be deleted into smaller chunks and delete ...