MDS Excel Add In Apply Rules does not work
I have the most recent version of the MDS Excel plug in installed in Excel 2013, and am running SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. The Apply Rules button does not perform validation as it should. If I...
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Setting read permission on entity attribute makes the model disappear
Hi,My company is new to MDS. I am trying to set an attritube in an entity to read only so the users can't change the value in that field. When I did that, the whole model disappeared. I thought I had...
View ArticleMDS 2016 CTP3 error: No parameterless constructor defined for this object.
I created clean Windows Server 2012 R2 installs on two servers; one for the database engine, the other for MDS. I was able to add the roles and features pre-requisites (including the new Dynamic...
View ArticleHow do I get more Verbose Error info from MDSModelDeploy.exe
c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Master Data Services\Configuration\MDSModelDeploy.exe" deployupdate -package \\garble\foo\CC_ST1_150921__v1_0_0_5391.pkg -service MDS1 Deploying package...
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I am working with Master Data Services on SQL SERVER 2014. I get this Unknown error 'An unknown error occurred' frequently.but sometime it get resolved by itself. I couldn't get the exact reason for...
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Issue with Explorer Page within MDS
I have just installed Microsoft SQL Server 2014 on a Windows 2008 Enterprise server, and for some reason the following error appears every time I try to access the "Explore" page within MDS. Any idea...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 MDS Add-in For Microsoft Excel Install on Excel 2016
Hi,When I try and install the SQL Server 2014 Master Data Services Add-in For Microsoft Excel I get the following message:These prerequisites are not installed:Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Extended...
View ArticleExcel add-in for MDS CTP 3 hangs on loading a model
Hi,We have an install of SQL MDS 2016 CTP3 which I can access via the web browser and create models etc. I have uninstalled the Excel add-in for 2012 and installed the MDS 2016 CTP3 add-in on Excel...
View ArticlePreventing Duplicate inserts
In my trivial example below I have a Nationality entity. The entity just has the code and Name attributes, with the code being an automatically generated Integer. Im inserting one record and then...
View ArticleInsert or Update using WCF API is flaging entity member for re-validation.
Hi,I have an API which uses the MDS WCF methods to update and insert entity members into MDS. Its working as expected. But whenever a entity member is inserted or updated, the validation flag is set to...
View ArticleMDS 2012 Permisions on Nodes in explicit Hierarchies
Setting permissions for nodes in explicit hierarchies only seems to work on root.We can set the permission (in the Web UI) but it vanishes when saved. For root it works. Tested up to SP3.With MDS 2014...
View ArticleShare entity among models
How to share or refer (like domain base) an entity among the models? Eg.Address for Customer and Supplier or SalesUnit for Product and Customer. I noticed it was not available on MDS 2012, but there...
View ArticleHow to transfer data from SQL Table to MDS
Hi Team,I am newbie to MDS of SQL,want to know how we can transfer tables from two different SQL Databases to MDS.Suggest me the steps to proceed with any examples.
View ArticleStaging tables
While Loading the Data into MDS Staging tables daily, do we need to truncate the staging table ?I tried to load the data without truncating the table it is taking duplicates. I tried working with...
View ArticleMDS - Memory utilization
Hi Gurus,MDS installed on windows 2012 R2 standard server. Currently the MDS application is having issues with the system memory. There are other applications on the server which are consuming lot of...
View ArticleUnable to get Trace Logging to work in MDS 2014
Hi,I'm trying to get the application logging to work, but nothing is happening. I'm using SQLServer2014.I've followed the instructions on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2423478 , even copying and...
View ArticleHow to delete attribute without using MDS UI.
Hello,To delete an attribute from MDS UI is simple task as mentioned in "https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ff487063.aspx". But I am facing issue while doing this.So I am looking into other...
View ArticleMDS Excel user enrichments
HiI have an Excel sheet connected to an MDS data store that the user utilizes to pull down data and enrich the data with values then save it back to the MDS data store. As part of the MDS application,...
View ArticleCreating Entity using MDS API
Hi Team,I am newbie to MDS API,followed this blog (http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mds_team/archive/2010/01/12/getting-started-with-the-web-services-api-in-sql-server-2008-r2-master-data-services.aspx)...
View ArticleMDS Excel transactions
HiI have an Excel sheet connected to an MDS data store that the user utilizes to pull down data and enrich the data with values then save it back to the MDS data store. As part of the MDS application,...
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