[dba-SQLServer] 2.45 billion rows and counting was PK Cast fails

[John W. Colby]

I'm just trying to get a feel for "how far done".

I know that two billion records was about Simmons record #70 (of 220), 
but each simmons record has a different number of matching DB101 records 
so that doesn't say a whole lot.

This thing is iterating the Simmons table in code, appending an entire 
set of PKDB101 / PKSimmons records for each record in the Simmons 
definition table (220 total such records) - typically tens of millions 
DB101 PKs per Simmons record (PK).  I could just halt the stored 
procedure but if it was very far into a given append it would have to 
back out a lot of records before it finally stopped.

I figure it will finish sometime tonight.

John W. Colby

On 8/8/2015 3:45 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Doh!   Didn't read it carefully enough.  I just saw Max() and PK and jumped in :(
>