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  • December 21, 2009 at 7:41 pm

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    homebrew01 (12/21/2009)

    CirquedeSQLeil (12/21/2009)

    Then a simple select * into tablebackup12212009 from table would suffice for the backup.

    I seem to recall that you can get blocking when creating a table this way if the source table is big because system locks are held until the insert is complete. You could create the empty table tablebackup12212009 first , then insert the data.

    It's an absolute myth that was once true prior to SQL Server 6.5 sp1.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153441/EN-US/

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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