Let’s understand master data services terminologies using an analogy. We’ll use the world of RDBMS for our analogy:
| Terminology in MDS | Analogy w/ RDBMS |
| Models | SQL server Schema which is used to group logical entities together. |
| Entities | Table |
| Attributes | Columns |
And here’s a picture that captures the thought: Models contains entities; entities contains Attributes:
And Here’s the official reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633763.aspx
Conclusion:
Thinking about the master data services terminologies by drawing an analogy helps me remember them – I hope it helps someone out there too.