Understanding Dataverse

Dataverse, which until November 2020 was known as Common Data Service (CDS), is a data source that is available on the Power Platform and that allows you to store data in a structure that shares a lot of similarities to a database. The data is structured in tables (previously known as entities) that use columns (previously known as fields) to hold and structure the data very much like a database table that you would expect to see in a simple Microsoft Access database.

Dataverse enables users to share data across several different applications within Microsoft 365 including Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Power BI, and Power Pages. Unlike other data sources, to use Dataverse, we do not need to provide specific connection information as the underlying database is automatically connected to the environment where the app exists.

Dataverse allows you to build relationships between tables. Most developers within Microsoft 365 would...