Mustafa EL-Masry SQL Server 2016

Concept and basics of Temporal tables in SQL Server 2016


In this article I’ll cover all aspects of a new SQL Server 2016 feature, Temporal Tables (System-Versioned), including:

  • Introduction
  • What is a temporal table?
  • Why Temporal table?
  • How does temporal table work?
  • Consideration and limitation
  • Temporal tables vs CDC
  • Creation and configuration
  • Clean up and removal
  • References

Introduction

AS we know, Microsoft released SQL Server 2016 RTM version (13.00.1601.5) and in November of 2016 updated it by the latest CU (Security Bulletin MS16-136 (CU) KB #3194717) (13.0.2186.0) you can check this update from here.

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