ER/Studio for SQL Server 17.1

Data Architect:

• SQL Server 2017 has been added as a new platform version, allowing customers to differentiate between SQL Server 2017 physical models (forward & reverse engineering) and earlier versions.
• The following improvements for reliability, consistency and customer experience:
  • Data lineage quality improvements.
  • Business Data Object (BDO) quality improvements.
  • Compare & merge improvements (multiple platforms).
  • DDL Generation quality improvements.
  • New MetaWizard import/export updates.

Repository & Team Server:

• New Repository/Team Server Hosting Platforms, allowing customers to use the latest technologies.
  • Windows Server 2016 OS
  • SQL Server 2017
• Team Server/Repository TLS 1.2 certification, allowing compliance with more stringent security requirements.
• Repository Permission Improvements. An individual user will now have access to a project folder or diagram if any group they belong to has access. This provides better consistency and usability in managing repository permissions.
• Performance improvements in migration from previous releases, increasing environment availability.
  • General increases of 90%+ improvement, but some large environments are seeing even greater gains.
• Change Management quality improvements to Jira integration for better consistency and user experience.
• Publishing quality and performance improvements, improving user experience.
• Interactive viewer quality improvements, improving user experience.