1. A time travel With temporal tables Leonel Abreu leonel.abreu@gmail.com

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3. Agenda What’s a Temporal Table? It’s useful for A Short “How to”
Advantages and how to use it
It’s useful for
Auditing efects
Disaster Recovery
Trending Analytics
A Short “How to”
Scenario and demo

4. What is a temporal table?
Also known as System Versioned
Because keep changes
Just two extra columns
To define periods
Finally a second table
Which contains the history

5. How does it work?
Source:

6. How does it work?
Source:

7. Advantages Security Easy to maintain Can be used
Is not possible to modify the historical data
Easy to maintain
Additional coding to insert/update/delete data is not required
Can be used
For new tables
For existing tables

8. Why temporal tables? Auditing Time Travel Recovering
All data changes and forensics if necessary
Time Travel
State of data as of any time in the past
Recovering
From accidental data changes, as undesired DELETE operations

9. Why temporal tables? Calculate Also BI Schema included
Trends over time
Also BI
Can be used to do SCD
Schema included
If the table structure is changed, it is also recorded

10. Why temporal tables? Real data sources are dynamic
9/4/2018 7:12 PM
Why temporal tables?
Real data sources are dynamic
Historical data may be critical to business success
Traditional databases fail to provide required insights
Workarounds are…
Complex, expensive, limited, inflexible, inefficient
SQL Server 2016 makes life easy
No change in programming model
New Insights
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11. Why temporal tables? Azure SQL Database Facts: Solution:
Microsoft Ignite 2015
9/4/2018 7:12 PM
Why temporal tables?
Facts:
History is much bigger than actual data
Retained between 3 and 10 years
“Warm”: up to a few weeks/months
“Cold”: rarely queried
SELECT * FROM Department
FOR SYSTEM_TIME
AS OF ' '
Azure SQL Database
Solution:
history as a stretch table:
PeriodEnd < “Now - 6 months”
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12. How to implement it?
Source:

13. How to implement it?

14. Query Clauses AS OF FROM TO SysStartTime SysStartTime <= date_time
SysEndTime
> date_time
FROM TO
SysStartTime
< end_date_time
SysEndTime
> start_date_time

15. Query Clauses BETWEEN AND CONTAINED IN ALL
SysStartTime
<= end_date_time
SysEndTime
> start_date_time
CONTAINED IN
SysStartTime
>= end_date_time
SysEndTime
<= start_date_time
ALL
Returns the union between the current and history table

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