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There’s been a whole host of changes to MDS in the SQL Server 2012 RC (Release Candidate) 0 that came out the other week. This blog post gives an overview of the changes, before diving into detail on a few of them. At a high level, the following changes...
Master Data Services Collections are probably not the first feature that come to mind when you think of the MDS product. The hierarchies and member grids tend to be the core functionality, but as this post will hopefully show, MDS Collections are useful...
This is a quick blog post to announce that Adatis are running a contest in conjunction with Packt around Master Data Services. The winner will receive an Amazon Kindle pre-loaded with our Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services book....
Master Data Services in SQL Server Denali now includes an Excel add-in that allows MDS users to add and update data that exists within Master Data Services. For those of you that haven’t had a chance to download the latest CTP, this post gives an overview...
If you didn’t make it to Tech Ed in North America last week, then you can download session recordings and take part in the labs at the Tech Ed site here . The session recordings are also available for streaming or download on Channel 9 . Today I wanted...
For the past seven months, Adatis have been working on new book for Master Data Services. The book, titled SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services, will be published by Packt Publishing and will be released on 30th June. For those of you who don’t know...
Derived Hierarchies in Master Data Services are hierarchies created from the domain-based attribute relationships between entities, as explained in the following documentation , resulting in a fixed-depth hierarchy. A less obvious feature is that they...
For any given entity in Master Data Services, its only the Code attribute that cannot be left blank when entering data in the front end or via the MDS staging tables. For any of the other attributes, you can then use the MDS business rules to enforce...
For your Master Data services business rules that have a validation action, a notification, if you’ve set one up, will be sent if the rule condition gets satisfied. I’ve noticed a quirk to the way that the notifications are sent – I was getting unexpected...
Subscription Views are one of the ways to extract data from Master Data Services. Created via the ‘Data Integration’ section of the MDS Master Data Manager front end, they result in the creation of a physical SQL Server view in the underlying database...
Back to a bit of Master Data Services this week – there’s been a few learning resources that have appeared here and there for MDS over the past couple of months. I thought that it would be worth rounding up the ones that I’ve noticed: Installing and Configuring...
MDM tools give the control of the enterprise master data over to the data stewards and power users, rather than relying on automated data integration alone. Master Data Services is no exception to the above. One of the ways that this is true for MDS is...
I've been keeping an eye on the SQL Server 2008 R2 CTPs over the past few months, but have been compelled to start blogging again following the release of Master Data Services (MDS) in the November CTP. The idea of a Microsoft MDM tool first caught...