I'm using system-versioned (temporal) tables with an identity column and noticed that sometimes the start time of a row in the history table has a higher identity value than a row with a later start time. See example below:

Is this because of overlapping transactions - i.e one row "claimed" the earlier identity value but was then inserted slightly after another set of values?

CodePudding user response：

From the document you linked

INSERTS: The system sets the value for the ValidFrom column to the begin time of the current transaction...

But IDENTITY columns take their values at the moment of insertion. So yes, there may be an overlap.