Best way to update 40 million rows in batch

Question

Basically I need to run this on a table with 40 million rows, updating every row at once will crash, so I want to batch the query so that if it crash, it can re-run the quer

Answer 1

Declare @Rowcount INT = 1;

WHILE (@Rowcount > 0)   
BEGIN
        UPDATE TOP (100000) [table]   --<-- define Batch Size in TOP Clause
           SET [New_ID] = [Old_ID]
        WHERE [New_ID] <> [Old_ID]

        SET @Rowcount = @@ROWCOUNT;

       CHECKPOINT;   --<-- to commit the changes with each batch
END