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Mastering SQL Server 2017
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Mastering SQL Server 2017

by Milos Radivojevic, Dejan Sarka, William Durkin, Christian Cote, Matija Lah
August 2019
Beginner to intermediate
696 pages
15h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Data manipulation in temporal tables

In this section, you will see what happens when data is inserted, updated, or deleted into/in/from a temporal table. Note that all manipulations will be done against the current table. The history table is protected; only the system can write to it.

Even members of the sysadmin server role cannot insert, update, or delete rows from a history table of a system-versioned temporal table in SQL Server 2017.

As an example, you will use the dbo.Product temporal table created in the previous section. Use this code to recreate the table:

USE WideWorldImporters; --remove existing temporal table if exists ALTER TABLE dbo.Product SET (SYSTEM_VERSIONING = OFF); ALTER TABLE dbo.Product DROP PERIOD FOR SYSTEM_TIME; ...
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ISBN: 9781838983208