Current Temporal Modification - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Temporal Table Support

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-23
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

Current temporal modifications are modifications to the current rows of a temporal table.

The period of applicability of a current modification implicitly begins from the current time and extends indefinitely, represented by an ending period bound of UNTIL_CHANGED. Current modifications need not explicitly specify a period in the modification SQL. The CURRENT keyword causes the system to automatically apply the modification to those rows whose period of validity overlaps the current time.

Some proposed implementations of temporal tables suggest that a current modification also apply to future rows. In the Teradata Database implementation, a current modification applies only to current rows.

A current modification to any column creates history rows in the temporal table.