Re: SQL:2011 application time

 But
the standard says that dropping system versioning should automatically
drop all historical records (2 under Part 2: Foundation, 11.30 <drop
system versioning clause>). That actually makes sense though: when you
do DML we automatically update the start/end columns, but we don't
save copies of the previous data (and incidentally the end column will
always be the max value.)