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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

Transactions


We covered transactions back in the previous chapter when we looked at the Explorer function, as the Explorer provides the ability to look at and even reverse the transactions that have occurred against an Entity.

This ability is present also within the Version Management function, but it takes transactions one step further, by providing the ability to choose a transaction within a specific version.

We will now use the Transactions page to view the differences in transactions across our two versions:

  1. Remaining in the Version Management function, hover over the Review menu, and choose the Transactions menu item.

  2. Choose the 2010_Stores version from the Version drop-down. Verify that several pages of transactions are returned.

  3. Change the Version to 2011_Stores and note that only a handful of transactions are displayed, as we've only made a few edits in this chapter.

The same ability to annotate and undo transactions is present in the version's Transactions page, but the major difference...