Time Traveling Data: SQL Server Temporal Tables

On Thursday, September 18, 2025, we will meet at the Slingshot offices at 700 N Hurstbourne Pkwy. Doors will open at 6:00 pm, and the presentations will begin sharply at 6:30 pm. Along with an excellent presentation, we'll have food. Be sure to RSVP so we know how much food is needed. Afterward, we will go Brick House Tavern for drinks and food to continue the conversation.

The session will also be broadcast at https://twitch.tv/TaleLearnCode.

# Time Travelling Data: SQL Server Temporal Tables

Have you built complicated triggers and procedures to track the history of data in your databases? What if SQL Server or Azure SQL could take care of all that for you and you just had to change a couple of settings? Starting with SQL Server 2016, there is support for system-versioned temporal tables as a database feature that brings built-in support for providing information about data stored in a table at any point in time rather than only the data that is correct as the current moment time. During this session, Chad will explain the key scenarios around the use of Temporal Tables, how system-time works, how to get started, and finish up with a demo to show you Temporal Tables in action, including the easy-to-use T-SQL syntax to implement all of the Temporal goodness. We will also look at how Entity Framework Core 6 now lets us do all this directly in Entity Framework.