Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series.
Time series data is a set of values organized in the order in which they occur and arrive for processing. Unlike transactional data in SQL Server, which is not time-based and may be updated often, time series data is typically written once and rarely, if ever, updated.
Some examples of time series data include stock prices, telemetry from equipment sensors on a manufacturing floor, and performance metrics from SQL Server, such as CPU, memory, I/O, and network utilization.
Time series data is often used for historical comparisons, anomaly detection and alerting, predictive analysis, and reporting, where