I am not sure if this has been raised before, it seems like a very common scenario that I am sure most people will encounter but I wasn’t able to find any details on the internet or the connect website so here goes. While testing out temporal tables I found that if a record is updated multiple times in quick succession (sub sec or sub milli second timeframes) then the records are captured accurately within the temporal and historical tables but the records are not returned accurately when they are queried using the Temporal query syntax FOR SYSTEM_TIME BETWEEN or FROM.
It looks like temporal tables expect the end time to be datetime2(0) and as a result it loses granularity at the sub second level for updates. So if two rows are updated at the exact same time only the latest row is returned as part of the output.
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