Jeanne Combrinck shows us how to query data stored in temporal tables:
When you want to get latest (actual) state of data in a temporal table, you can query the same way as you query a normal table. If the PERIOD columns are not hidden, their values will appear in a SELECT * query. If you specified PERIOD columns as hidden, their values won’t appear in a SELECT * query. When the PERIOD columns are hidden, reference the PERIOD columns specifically in the SELECT clause to return the values for these columns.
To perform any type of time-based analysis, use the new FOR SYSTEM_TIME clause with four temporal-specific sub-clauses to query data across the current and history tables.
AS OF <date_time>
FROM <start_date_time> TO <end_date_time>
BETWEEN <start_date_time> AND <end_date_time>
CONTAINED IN (<start_date_time> , <end_date_time>)
ALL
Do check it out. The big downside I’ve seen to temporal tables is that I can’t query a temporal table as of a per-row timestamp in another table.