Dont see how selecting a table from the drop down for 2 seconds to refresh metadata is such an issue. But I do see you driving traffic to SSISJunkies.

Think you may be a little confused and maybe on the wrong subject or post for what you are trying to share.

Perhaps you could start your own post for select * and stop cluttering mine about metadata refresh to promote another site.

Moderators, can you clean this up? We have gotten off topic and started talking about something completely different than the topic suggests.