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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second edition

You're reading from   Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second edition Use business process automation to achieve digital transformation with minimal code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237671
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate 2. Getting Started with Power Automate FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Email 4. Copying Files 5. Creating Button Flows 6. Generating Push Notifications 7. Working with Shared Flows 8. Working with Conditions 9. Getting Started with Approvals 10. Working with Multiple Approvals 11. Posting Approvals to Teams 12. Using a Database 13. Working with Microsoft Forms 14. Accepting User Input 15. Automating Azure AD 16. Introducing Robotic Process Automation 17. Introducing AI Models 18. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows 19. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Connecting to a database

In this section, we’ll look at creating a simple button flow that adds a row of data to a database table. To do this, you’ll need a database and a table. In the following example, we’ll create a SQL instance and a database that we’ll use for our Power Automate configuration.

Creating a server

While you can use any supported database technology with Power Automate, we’re going to focus on SQL Server. If you already have an existing SQL server available, you can skip this step. Otherwise, you can provision the necessary components in Azure to start working immediately.

If you do not have access to server infrastructure, you can sign up for a free Azure trial at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0044p/ or by navigating to https://portal.azure.com, signing in with your global admin credential for your trial Microsoft 365 tenant, and then completing the Azure trial sign-up process.

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