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by shlomi-noach 1554 days ago
Engineer at PlanetScale -- It is not similar; so temporal tables are about getting a table's dataset at a given point in time in the past, sort of a time machine for your table. Rewind is about undoing a (bad) structural schema change, and _without_ having to go back in time - you continue your current timeline, with your current data, but flipped into the previous schema.

It's also not something you need to activate ahead of time, like you do in MSSQL temporal tables; it is activated on your behalf for any schema change you deploy.