Creating a MDS model

In this recipe, you are going to create an MDS model with the entities, attributes, and hierarchies needed for a customer's entity set. Then you will populate the entities and check your business rules.

Getting ready

In order to test this recipe, you need to have MDS installed. Please refer to the following link to learn how to install the MDS components: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/master-data-services/install-windows/install-master-data-services .

How to do it...

1. You need to open the Master Data Manager application. Open your web browser, navigate to your Master Data Manager site, and log in. Navigate to the home page.
2. Click the System Administration link.
3. In the Manage Models page, click Add.

4. Name the model AWCustomer. Make sure that the option Create entity with the same name as model is checked. Leave the Description textbox empty, and Log Retention drop-down list to the default, System Setting, as the shown in the following screenshot. Click the Save button...