They'll be implemented using the latest SQL Server data types. The CDM will be at the heart of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 cloud bundle, the first pieces of which will be available this fall.

Microsoft's coming Dynamics 365 ERP/CRM service has something called the 'Common Data Model' at its core. Here's more on what CDM is and why it matters.

Information in this article applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The instructions for earlier versions of SQL Server, including versions 2008 and 2005, are similar.

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...

A limitation of the profiling tool is that source data must be stored within a SQL Server database. If you wish to profile data stored in flat files, for example, then you must first load that ...

The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled " Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...