Connecting your Power App to SQL Server is an important milestone — but understanding how to use the data you’ve connected is what makes or breaks your app’s usability and performance.After setting up the connection, you’ll see tables and views listed together in the same tab. They’re your building blocks for creating galleries, forms, dropdowns, data tables, and other controls that users interact with.In this article, I’ll explain how you can thoughtfully use tables and views as data sources, when to pick one over the other, and how this choice impacts your app’s design, security, and performance.
✅ What You See – Tables & Views in One Place
Once connected, Power Apps shows you a combined list of available data structures from SQL Server:
📋 Tables – Where your core data lives: customers, orders, products, etc. You use them when you want to create or edit records.
🔍 Views – Predefined or custom queries that combine or filter data from one or more tables. You use them when you want to display specific information in a gallery or data table.
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