A simple DELETE statement without temporal qualification operates just as a DELETE on a nontemporal table, completely deleting rows that qualify for deletion:
DELETE FROM employee_vt WHERE ename=’Ash’; SELECT * FROM employee_vt;
Output:
eid ename terms job_start job_end ---- ----- ----- ----------- ----------- 1005 Alice TW11 2004/12/01 2005/12/01 1010 Mike TW07 2015/01/01 2016/12/31 1005 Alice PW11 2005/12/01 9999/12/31 1001 Sania TW08 2002/01/01 2006/12/31 1004 Fred PW12 2001/05/01 9999/12/31 1003 SRK TM02 2004/02/10 2005/02/09