Select TOP N Rows missing from SSMS temporal table I am using temporal tables within my database and when I right click on my table  in Management Studio 2017 (v17.4 14.0.17213.0) I do not see the Select Top 1000 Rows in the context menu (there is no problem with non temporal tables)



Any ideas how to get this context menu back? I have a feeling it is to do with the version of SQL Server I am running (SQL 13.1.4001.0 Express Edition)
My SSMS 17.5 does show the context-menu for "Select Top 1000 Rows" against a SQL Server 2016 temporal-enabled table on Enterprise Edition.



In SQL Server 2016 Express, via SSMS 17.5, I'm not able to see the "Select Top 1000 Rows" context menu.



This appears to be a purposeful decision by Microsoft within SQL Server Management Studio.