[18Gb in 5min] How to Copy Table Data from One Database to Another in SQL

Introduction Suppose you need to copy an 18.2 GB table (60 million rows) from one SQL server to multiple others. When reviewing data with T-SQL for Machine Learning exploration, you discover that one of the fields is a VARMINARY(max). This prevents the use of backup/restore compression and slows down data transmission. In testing, it took over 11 minutes just to...