Temporal qualifiers that span a period of time can also be used to select all rows in a system-time table, including all open and closed rows, if the specified period is sufficiently broad.
SELECT * FROM employee_systime FOR SYSTEM_TIME FROM TIMESTAMP'1900-01-01 00:00:00.000001-08:00' TO CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; eid ename deptno sys_start sys_end ---- ------ ------ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 1002 Ash 333 2003-07-01 12:11:00.000000-08:00 9999-12-31 23:59:59.999999+00:00 1005 Alice 222 2004-12-01 00:12:23.120000-08:00 2005-05-01 12:00:00.450000-08:00 1004 Fred 222 2002-07-01 12:00:00.350000-08:00 2005-05-01 12:00:00.350000-08:00 1005 Alice 555 2005-05-01 12:00:00.450000-08:00 9999-12-31 23:59:59.999999+00:00 1004 Fred 555 2005-05-01 12:00:00.350000-08:00 9999-12-31 23:59:59.999999+00:00 1001 Sania 111 2002-01-01 00:00:00.000000-08:00 9999-12-31 23:59:59.999999+00:00 1003 SRK 111 2004-02-10 00:00:00.000000-08:00 2006-03-01 00:00:00.000000-08:00
This has returned all rows in the system-time table.