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Want to see what a row looked like yesterday? MariaDB’s system‑versioned tables keep every change automatically. This post walks through how they work, a point‑in‑time query example, the unbounded‑history trade‑off, and how to prune history with partitions.
MariaDB's system-versioned tables automatically capture every UPDATE and DELETE, letting you query any row as it existed at a past timestamp — no audit triggers or soft-delete logic required.
MariaDB 10.3+ system-versioned tables preserve every row version automatically. Learn the WITH SYSTEM VERSIONING syntax, FOR SYSTEM_TIME queries, history partitioning, and storage pitfalls.
MariaDB system-versioned tables retain every historical row version automatically, replacing hand-rolled trigger-based audit tables with a single DDL clause and point-in-time SQL queries.
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