They were introduced in SQL Server 2005 as an alternative to system tables. One example is viewing operating ... Temporary Tables folder of the tempdb database. Transactions allow you to group ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database ... own history table lets you define different indexes or storage options for your historical table. While I've skipped creating my own history table, I have ...

The benefits to this feature are that it can: reduce server round trips, use table constraints, and extend the functionality of programming on the database engine. There are some limitations to ...