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What are Virtual Tables in Microsoft Dataverse?

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Virtual Tables in Microsoft Dataverse allow organizations to represent data from an external system inside Dataverse without physically storing that external data in the Dataverse database. This provides a way for Power Apps and other Dataverse-based applications to interact with external data while maintaining the external system as the source of truth. Virtual Tables can be useful when organizations need to access information from external databases or services while avoiding unnecessary data duplication. For example, an organization could potentially expose external business information through Dataverse so that users can interact with it through a Power App or Model-Driven App.
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Virtual Tables allow Dataverse applications to display and interact with data stored in external systems without physically copying the data into Dataverse. Organizations commonly connect Dataverse to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, SAP, Oracle, or custom APIs. Since the data remains in its original source, organizations avoid duplication while still enabling Power Apps and Dynamics 365 to use external business information. Virtual Tables are particularly useful when data must remain within existing enterprise systems for compliance or operational reasons.

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