.NET Data Community Standup: Temporal tables and constraints in SQL Server and PostgreSQL 18
TL;DR
SQL Server temporal tables are for audit trails: They automatically create a history table behind the scenes, so every update or delete preserves the old row with timestamps. Developers never write to the history table; the database handles it.
The Breakdown
PostgreSQL 18's new temporal feature is not an audit trail like SQL Server's temporal tables it is a fundamentally different tool for modeling data that has time periods baked into its business logic.
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