Find an idle, freshly started instance. Run this:

SELECT * FROM sys.dm_tran_version_store

to verify that it is empty. Then do something like this in a database that does not have any form...

The inserted/deleted tables are created from the version store in tempdb.

So that is indeed one more input to the original question. If you are running with any sort of snapshot...

In my case the char(7200) was just a filler to the sake of the test. Let it represent some umpteen other columns. Probably not totalling 7200 bytes, but maybe a...

I should add one more thing. I conducted some tests to back what I said, and they gave me some results that it took some time to digest. But there...

I think you are into over-engineering when you are considering to have a separate table. That would only make sense, if you are considering to track not only last accessed,...

Well, you started three threads, and Lynn replied to them all...

The answer is simple: you are not in Kansas anymore.

LIKE does not support regular expressions of any flavour. It supports % to mean 0 or more of any characters. It...

I can only give a solution to the problem you state, which was for the update of a single value.

Since I don't know how your more than 100 records are...

Sounds like

IF (SELECT COUNT(*) 
    FROM   tbl 
    WHERE  FailedNumber = @FailedNumber 
     ...

While I may point out the obvious, when you run the query with TRY_CAST make sure that you also have the result of your massaging included, so that you can...

Copy the table to an instance of a newer version of SQL Server. Download and install Express Edition if needed. On that version run a query with try_cast, to see...

The first reply is: don't store data like this! Yes, I know you told us that you can't change the model, but pass the bucket: don't store data like this.

Next,...

Great to hear that you were able to work it out!

Not really your everyday scenario, so I don't have a canned answer. 🙂 But use Profiler to spy on SSMS to see what queries it submits. This should give  you...

This sounds like a problem with SSMS. Which version of SSMS do you have? You can download the most recent version here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms. Not that this necessarily helps, as...