Copy partner function?

Hello!
We're running a CRM 5.2 system with a big daily load ~10k SO/day.
We have a situation where a lot of service orders have been created with one partner function referencing a small number of business partners. The result being that these business partners are extremely slow in the system and often time out in searches.
The exact amount of service orders and business partners is as of yet still unknown, but a ball park figure is about 15-20 business partners with the partner function on potentially hundreds of thousands of service orders, each. In total we have about 8 million service orders. So we are dealing with large volumes of live production data.
What we would like to do is to "fix" these service orders by "copying" the business partner from another partner function on these service orders and replace the incorrect one. See example below:
Before:
Service order: 8000001234
Partner function Z0000109: BP 500000111 (incorrect BP)
Partner function Z0000108: BP 500000222
After:
Service order: 8000001234
Partner function Z0000109: BP 500000222 ("copied" from below)
Partner function Z0000108: BP 500000222
We believe this would be accomplished by changing the GUID for BP 500000111 to the GUID for BP 500000222 in field PARTNER_NO for the relevant partner functions in table CRMD_PARTNER. We intend to verify this approach in a sandbox environment for sure so we know that it can be done before we start development for real, but we would be very glad for comment on this approacy, whether you have any tips/suggestions on how to do this, whether it has been done before on large data volumes (we couldn't find a good SAP note), or whether you perhaps advise against doing this at all.
Thanksful for any comments,
Petter

By changing the GUID in CRMD_PARTNER you should be able to do so, I have done it several times, but only with smaller numbers. However, if you work on this table I would rather (due to performance reason) do it directly on the DB and not via an ABAP. Maybe even use a shadow-CRMD_PARTNER, update this via program and later copy back the values into the CRMD_PARTNER to minimize access time on the table.
With that many data I guess you have an explicit DBA responsible to database tuning? I would go and see this guy beforehand.
Regards, Kai

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