Can’t seem to get set_blog_id working, it just doesn’t reset the blog ID
Use switch_to_blog( $new_blog_id ) instead. You can find the function in wp-includes/ms-blogs.php. Update $wpdb->set_blog_id() doesn’t change the global variable $blog_id which is returned by get_current_blog_id(). switch_to_blog() does change the global variable.