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Drop system-versioned temporal table in SQL Server

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To Drop a Temporal Table you first need to turn System_Versioning OFF. Then Delete your required temporal table. Finally you can also choose to delete History table associated with your Temporal Table.

CODE EXAMPLE:
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TemporalTest] SET ( SYSTEM_VERSIONING = OFF  )
GO
DROP TABLE [dbo].[TemporalTest]
GO
DROP TABLE [dbo].[TemporalTestHistory]
GO