I'm happy to announce the release of MetaModel 1.1.8.

This release is a minor release with updates only relating to MS SQL Server. The changes are, however, profound in this regard. Microsoft SQL Server JDBC drivers are known to be quirky when it comes to metadata exploration and we are happy to say that MetaModel now addresses these issues. So if you're a MS SQL Server you should be sure to get the latest version of MetaModel!

MetaModel is as always available at the following locations:

• Downloadables at google code.
• Javadocs available online.
• Maven-support out of the box:

  <dependency>
   <groupId>dk.eobjects.metamodel</groupId>
   <artifactId>MetaModel-full</artifactId>
   <version>1.1.8</version>
  </dependency>
  

We hope you're all satisified with the improvements of this release and don't hesitate to give us any feedback.

About half a year ago we received an exciting inquiry from Jos van Dongen on behalf of him and his co-author Roland Bouman, telling us that they where writing a new book about Open Source Business Intelligence and in particular Pentaho-based solutions. And for this they where looking into DataCleaner for the data profiling section of the book!

The book is now out! It's called "Pentaho Solutions" and it's published by Wiley Publishing. You can read about it and buy it on their website as well.

The book contains a walkthrough for building a data warehouse using Open Souce tools and in doing so applying DataCleaner for the important job of profiling and validation.

We congratulate Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen for their great work to promote Open Source Business Intelligence and thank them for mentioning DataCleaner while they're at it!