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Do online resources exist for informing the selection of Dataverse vs. SQL Server (or MySQL) for creating new enterprise software applications?
There is a good link here for SharePoint Lists vs. Dataverse for Teams, and there is a good link for Dataverse for Teams vs. Dataverse; however, what is Dataverse better for vs. an RDBMS and vice versa ?
Hi @Chris1969,
@EricRegnier wrote a short blog post that does a great job summarizing Dataverse and how it's much more than just a database. So without repeating everything that Eric talks about, I'll just summarize a few key points :
Have a review of the blog post below.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/News-Announcements/Dataverse-is-not-a-database/ba-p/756215
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Thank you very much, greatly appreciated
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