Some things are taken care of for you: If you alter the schema of a temporal table (by adding a new column, for example), SQL Server will take care of copying the change to your historical table. But, ...

The first is that you can simply add a column to your view select statement which is unique. You don’t have to use that column in your program but it will allow EF to properly build each object ...

Also in the With clause, I define the data types for those columns which, among other benefits, allows me to convert the string-value date in the object into a genuine SQL Server date. This SQL ...

In earlier versions of SQL Server, after selecting a join algorithm, SQL Server had to process it even if a better alternative might be available. In SQL Server 2017, the query optimizer can now sense ...