Table Swaps With Triggers

Jay Robinson walks through the process of making a breaking change to a large, active table with limited downtime:

I can only recall one time in the past several years (at least a decade) that I’ve found triggers to be useful. It involves data migration.

The problem: You have a massive, high-activity table. Let’s call this Table_A. You need to make significant changes to it. For example, the clustered index needs to change. How do you accomplish this?

I’ve used a similar process with good success in the past.