history rows management in database

Question

As in many databases, i am designing a database that should keep record of previous versions of the rows changed in each table.

The standard solution to this problem is

Answer 1

Would tracking it based on time help you achieve the effect you are looking for on a daily basis and at the end of the business or at mid night depending on the lowest transaction volume time if you executed a procedure to move trailing data into history table then would it help ?? that way all your updates would be inserts and no locking is required as well. Regards, Andy