Comments on: Modifying Tables Online – Part 5: Just One More Thing

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Something for the Weekend - SQL Server Links 04/05/12 — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:23:22 +0000

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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:11:44 +0000

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Modifying Tables Online - Part 4: Testing | Michael J. Swart — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:11:25 +0000

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By: Michael J. Swart

Michael J. Swart — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:49:44 +0000

Yep, you should blog as often as you shower. At least once a year (whether you need to or not)

By: Rob Volk

Rob Volk — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:42:15 +0000

Glad to be an inspiration! I’ve been using this technique at my current job for about a year now, to load data into staging tables and swap them in as live data. We went with this instead of table partitions to work around the Enterprise Edition requirement (although we’re now on Enterprise anyway). We also keep 3 schemas in play so we can revert to earlier versions of the data if necessary.

Now see what you did? I may have to blog about this, even though I’ve already blogged this year!

Thanks, and great job on this series!