1. What’s New in SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services
Microsoft C+E Technology Training
Solution Area
Data Analytics
Solution
Business Intelligence
Technology
SQL Server EIM
What’s New in SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services
In this video I will demonstration What’s New in SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services.
Peter Myers

2. Presentation Outline Master Data Services Overview New MDS Features
Deprecated MDS Features
Discontinued MDS Features
Upgrading to MDS 2016
Supported MDS Features by Edition

3. Master Data Services Overview
Master Data Services (MDS) is the SQL Server solution for master data management
Master Data Management (MDM) enables an organization to discover and define non-transactional lists of data, and to compile maintainable, reliable master lists
MDS was first released with SQL Server 2008 R2

4. New MDS Features
The new MDS features are grouped into three focus areas:
Security and Administration
Performance and Scale
Modeling and Management

5. New MDS Features Security and Administration
Multiple administrator roles
MDS now allows multiple system administrators, as well as distinct roles for model admins and super users
Granular security permissions
Allows read, modify, create, and delete permissions set at:
Attribute (column) level, and
Hierarchy member (row) level

6. New MDS Features Performance and Scale
MDS 2016 delivers massive performance and scale improvements
Capabilities:
Heavy performance optimizations for the MDS backend system
Reduced overhead by optimizing and caching security checks
Scale entities to >10 million members
Ability to create custom indexes on attributes, including composite and unique indexes
Benefits:
15x better performance for data loading in Excel
Entity-based staging is up to 200% faster
15x

7. New MDS Features Modeling and Management
MDS transaction log retention settings
Configurable settings for retaining the MDS transaction history table to easily enable automatic truncation and clean up
Enables retrieving attribute change history in an easy to consume format
Improved hierarchies
Simplified hierarchy types—now just derived hierarchies
Hierarchies can now represent both 1-∞ and ∞-∞ relationships
It is also now easier to find and manage unused members

8. New MDS Features Modeling and Management [Continued]
Improved model deployment
Faster deployment
Size limitations when deploying models with data have been removed
Entity Sync
A new feature to share common entities between models, within the same MDS instance
Configure one time, on-demand, or continuous sync of members

9. New MDS Features Modeling and Management [Continued]
Many-to-many relationships
Create M2M relationships in derived hierarchies
Replaces collections (now marked for deprecation)
Changesets
A simple approval flow allowing entity admins to specify that changes to a given entity require approval
Changes can be batched and only committed once they are approved

10. New MDS Features Modeling and Management [Continued]
Improved business rules
New business rule definition UI experience—reworked based on user feedback
Addition of NOT operator
Conditional ELSE statements
New negate operators
Ability to use custom T-SQL logic for conditions and actions

11. New MDS Features Modeling and Management [Continued] Attribute filters
When part of a hierarchy, domain-based attributes can be filtered based on a parent attribute within that entity
Enables easier selection of domain-based attribute values
Helps manage attribute values for large hierarchies
Country
City

12. New MDS Features User Experience Improvements
The Master Data Manager portal has been improved
Modern look and feel
New system administration pages
Usability improvement for administration tasks
Hierarchy design improvements
New business rule definition experience
Ability to open entity view in Excel
Reduced dependency on Silverlight

13. New MDS Features User Experience Improvements [Continued]
The MDS Excel Add-in has been improved
Performance improvements
General usability improvements:
Change display names for domain-based attributes
Apply business rules
Filter attribute values in domain-based attributes based on another attribute (using hierarchies)
Create and submit changesets
Manage merge conflicts

14. Deprecated MDS Features
Explicit hierarchies, collections, and related components
Members modelled as consolidated member types (explicit hierarchy parent), and collection member types, will be modelled as leaf members in derived hierarchies
New MDS 2016 features enable derived hierarchies to take the place of explicit hierarchies:
Recursive derived hierarchies can now be used to assign member security permissions
In Explorer, the derived hierarchy page now shows unassigned (unused) members, and are grouped by hierarchy level
The mdm.udpConvertCollectionAndConsolidatedMembersToLeaf stored procedure, converts explicit hierarchies to recursive derived hierarchies, and converts consolidated and collection members to leaf members
Deprecated features are those which are marked for removal in future releases

15. Deprecated MDS Features
[Continued]
Entity transaction log type "Attribute" is deprecated
Migrate to the "Member" entity transaction log type
Refer to:
Deprecated features are those which are marked for removal in future releases

16. Discontinued MDS Features
The MDS 2008 R2 staging process has been removed
Use the entity-based staging process added in MDS 2012
The Metadata model is no longer available
Metadata can no longer be viewed in the Explorer
Discontinued features are those which are no longer supported, and which is likely to have been removed in the SQL Server 2016 release

17. Upgrading to MDS 2016 Upgrading to MDS 2016 involves: Note:
Upgrading the MDS database schema (with, or without a Database Engine upgrade)
Creating a SQL Server 2016 web application
Upgrading the Master Data Services Add-In for Excel, on each client machine
Note:
The upgrade process recreates stored procedures and upgrades tables used by MDS, and so any customizations may be lost
Model deployment packages can be used only in the version of SQL Server in which they were created—those created by a previous version of SQL Server will not work

18. Supported MDS Features by Edition
MDS 2016 is supported only by Enterprise and Developer editions

19. Summary Fourth release of Master Data Services
Numerous compelling new features and enhancements deliver improved security and administration, performance and scale, and modeling and management
Upgrade from all prior versions of SQL Server is supported

20. Resources MSDN: SQL Server Master Data Services
MSDN: What’s New in Master Data Services
MSDN: Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2016
Master Data Services Blog

21. Resources [Continued] TechNet Virtual Labs:
Developing a SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services Solution
Exploring What's New in SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services
Use the search pane to locate the lab

22. © 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved
© 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Microsoft Azure, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION