Using Switching you can move millions of rows from one table to another in less than a second

Assume that there are two tables table_1 and table_2 which have same structures and table_1 has 10 millions rows and you want to move all rows from table_1 to table_2. The quickest method that I have learnt is to use Partition Switching


ALTER TABLE Table_1 Switch TO Table_2;


The reason why it is fast is that data are not moved actually but SQL Server updates metadata about the location of the data