While temporal data support is something that has existed in the past within other database platforms, it is a newly available feature with the RTM version of SQL Server 2016. In case you haven’t ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. In an earlier column, I showed how ...

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Safely enables temporal on an existing (heap or clustered) table. This demo creates a sample table first, then migrates it.

You may want to stop versioning on your temporal table either temporarily or permanently. You can do that by setting SYSTEM_VERSIONING clause to OFF. This example ...