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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Version Management

Version Management is the second function on the home page of the MDS Master Data Manager, where we can create different versions of our master data, which can be useful for archiving, testing, what-if, and auditing purposes.

In this chapter, we will walk through the MDS versioning features, applying changes to our example Store model.

The remainder of the chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to versions

  • Creating and managing versions

  • Validating versions

  • Locking, unlocking, and committing

  • Flags

  • Transactions