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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide
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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

by Dejan Sarka, Miloš Radivojević, William Durkin
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Migrating an existing temporal solution to system-versioned tables

Most probably, you have had to deal with historical data in the past. Since there was no out-of-the-box feature in previous SQL Server versions, you had to create a custom temporal data solution. Now that the feature is available, you might think to use it for your existing temporal solutions. You saw earlier in this chapter that you can define your own history table. Therefore, you can also use an existing and populated historical table. If you want to convert your existing solution to use system-versioned temporal tables in SQL Server 2017, you have to prepare both tables so that they fill all requirements for temporal tables. To achieve this, you will again use the AdventureWorks2017 ...

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