SP: Execute Long-running Queries In Small Chunks

Here's a little SP to break up those long-running, massively-locking, bring-app-to-a-halt queries. By default it does 500 rows at a time and allows for a maximum SQL query size of 4000 characters; it should be trivial to adjust those.

Cheers
-b


CREATE PROCEDURE p_BatchExecute (@vcSQL varchar(4000)) AS
set nocount on
DECLARE @iRows int
select @iRows=1
SET ROWCOUNT 500
WHILE @iRows>0
BEGIN
print 'Executing batch of 500...'
exec (@vcSQL)
set @iRows=@@ROWCOUNT
END
GO