Temporal tables were introduced by Microsoft in SQL Server 2016. From SQL Server 2016 onwards, temporal tables can be used to capture DML changes on a table without writing a single line of code. We have already discussed temporal tables in multiple blogs which can help us to understand it in more detail: Temporal Table […]
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Microsoft introduced Temporal tables in SQL Server 2016. Temporal tables are system versioned tables that have built-in support for row-level change tracking. We can create a new table as a temporal table or we can convert an existing table into a temporal table. The temporal tables keep the current data into the main table and
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We have discussed what is a temporal table, how we can create it, and what are the limitations of a temporal table. We have also discussed how we can convert an existing table to a temporal table in our previous posts. In this post “querying temporal table data” we are going to learn how to query the time varying
In the previous post, we have discussed the temporal table, which is introduced in SQL Server 2016 to store the time varying data (current data and the data change history along with the time period). There, we have also learnt how we can create a temporal table from scratch. In this post “Convert existing table to temporal
In this post we are going to discuss “Temporal Table”, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2016. Lets start this post “Temporal Table in SQL Server” with the definition of temporal table. Temporal Table facilitates inbuilt support for data change tracing along with the time period in a table. It holds the current as well as historical data to determine the
