What's New and Changed

SQL Server 2008 R2

New

These Data Portability documents have not been previously released.

Updated

These Data Portability documents were previously released and have been revised to reflect functionality for the latest product versions.

New Data Portability Documentation

There are no new SQL Server Data Portability documents for Microsoft SQL Server 2017.

Updated Data Portability Documentation

The following SQL Server Data Portability documents were previously released and have been updated for SQL Server 2017.

Specification

Description

Release Date

[MS-CSDLBI]: Conceptual Schema Definition File Format with Business Intelligence Annotations

Specifies the structure and semantics of conceptual schema definition language (CSDL) annotations that are used in business intelligence (BI) applications.

This document was updated to introduce Tabular databases that are at compatibility level 1400. A new feature defines whether a hierarchy contains leaf members at different levels. Another new feature specifies whether a measure or its owning table contains an unnamed user-defined expression.

August 2017

[MS-DPSSAS]: SQL Server Analysis Services Data Portability Overview

Provides an overview of data portability scenarios between SQL Server Analysis Services and a vendor's application.

This document was updated to clarify the description of the storage of passwords in data sources that are sent to a server that is running SQL Server Analysis Services.

August 2017

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