Basically, you’ll want to enable system-versioning for the source table to a history table which you’ve decided will be temporal. That being the case, you’ll need a couple additional columns of ...

In an earlier column, I showed how to create a temporal table in SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL Database. Once you've defined a temporal table, SQL Server automatically keeps a history of all the ...

Then they're there, no one knows it, and you can use the full functionality of Access.<BR><BR>When you're done, you might do a benchmark between using the temp table versus sql server to see if it ...

Temporal tables need to have a SysStartTime and SysEndTime column, both being a non-nullable DateTime2. These columns can be named anything and are managed by SQL Server; users are not allowed to ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2016 is offering another alternative, the new Temporal Table object. Superficially, a Temporal Table looks just like a normal table.