Understanding Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service, or CDS) can be thought of in similar terms to a database. It is comprised of data objects called tables (formerly known as entities). Like a spreadsheet, tables have the concept of columns (formerly referred to as attributes).
The Microsoft documentation currently has two separate descriptions for the types of objects stored in Dataverse. We covered the new nomenclature in Chapter 1, Introduction to Power Automate. In some cases, however, Dataverse terminology may change, depending on the user interface (UI), protocol, or technologies being used.
One of the biggest terminology changes is the renaming of entity to table. Many of the UI components that you’ll encounter may still reference Dataverse elements by their previous names. When we encounter these things in the UI, we’ll call them out.
Dataverse has several standard tables that cover a lot of usage scenarios. There are standard...
