• I had a similar issue last week with a table of 80 million+ rows which had several indexes with included columns. But now I remember I had to perform several updates which basically took far too long. In the end I took the decision to disable the indexes before running my updates.

    As has been suggested you can try it with indexes and (without + index rebuilds) but either way is going to cost you time.

    However, if you're going to be doing this again in future, at least you'll know which option will take less time.

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