The folks at SolidQ are providing a free e-book: Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Dejan Sarka, Davide Mauri I had a look through the book and I'm providing this tiny synopsis/review. The book can be found here . Other than marketing blurbs, I haven't really been exposed to MDM until I read the book. So, I am starting more-or-less from scratch. Chapter 1, "Master Data Management" seems to be a decent primer. It presents a background on relational and dimensional models, and where they and MDM fits in the universe. Chapter 2, "Master Data Services Concepts and Architecture", discusses MDS in detail. I think that this gave me a good feel for how MDS is supposed to work. Nonetheless, I think that most of that could be gleaned from other sources. The hidden gems here are in the second half of the book, which is comprised of chapters 3 and 4, "Data Quality and SQL Server 2008 R2 Tools" and "Ident...