SQL is used by major database management system vendors. Most major database management systems — such as those from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft — use SQL. SQL’s accessibility is an excellent ...

When you issue SQL against the database, the system catalog is either updated (for DDL) or accessed (for DML). All the information in the system catalog, however, may not completely up-to-date, and ...

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 Azure SQL Database you can also set a HISTORY_RETENTION_PERIOD (and should be able to do it in SQL Server 2017) to control how far back in time your history will extend. Converting Existing Table ...