Get full access to SQL Server 2017 Developer's Guide and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

System-versioned temporal tables in SQL Server 2017

SQL Server 2016 introduces support for system-versioned temporal tables. Unfortunately, application-time tables are not implemented neither in this version, nor in SQL Server 2017. System-versioned temporal tables bring built-in support for providing information about data stored in the table at any point in time rather than only the data that is correct at the current moment in time. They are implemented according to the specifications in the ANSI SQL:2011 standard with a few extensions.

Get SQL Server 2017 Developer's Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now