Performance when extracting schema

  • Hi All,

    Does extracting schema ,producing SQL DDL script will impact the performance on the production server?

    Thanks in advance

  • Nothing you ever do on a server is free. Yes, it impacts performance, but not very much at all. It should only take out some shared read locks on system tables that prevent schema changes from running. If your code is regularly changing your schema (and it's probably not a good thing if it is), you might see some blocking, but that's an edge case. Normally I would expect your server not to notice this at all in any way.

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  • Thanks a lot

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