how to find out if a TSQL table is being updated?

for example if someone does an update to a table that takes a long time, is
there anyway for me to check the status of that update process?

There is no built-in and generally applicable method to determine the
progress of an UPDATE (e.g. to be able to answer how much longer it will take
for the UPDATE to complete). The reason being that UPDATE can be processed in
many different way.

If we are talking about a very large update, you may want to break it into
multiple smaller batches of update, and insert code yourself to report the
progress.

Linchi

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