We are excited to share the new features which shipped in SQL CTP2.3 public release. You can download the product here:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48726, and Excel add-in here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47343
In this monthly release, we added a few highly asked features. Please give it try and look forward to hearing your feedback.
Manage Business Rules (MDS Add-in for Excel)
In the Master Data Services Add-in for Excel you can manage Business Rules, such as creating and editing business rules. Business rules are used to validate data. For more information, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt345526.aspx .
Many-to-Many Relationships in Derived Hierarchies
You can now create a Derived Hierarchy that displays many-to-many relationships. A many-to-many relationship between two entities may be modeled through the use of a third entity that provides a mapping between them. The mapping entity is an entity that has two or more domain-based attributes referencing other entities.
For example, entity M has a domain-based attribute that references A and a domain-based attribute that references B. You can create a hierarchy from A to B using the mapping entity.
For more information, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt345527.aspx
Merge Conflicts
If you try to publish data that has been changed by another user, the publish will fail with a conflict error. To resolve this error, you can perform merge conflicts and republish the changes. For more information, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt345524.aspx and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt345525.aspx .
