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Are any of you using Dataverse for data storage, in place of SQL, for non Power Apps related systems and solutions?

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Dataverse is a good alternative to SQL for storing transactional, structured data, and then quickly building low-code solutions on top of that data. Dataverse is actually built on top of Azure SQL (and uses other data stores under the hood for other types of data). You spend less time worrying about managing the underlying storage/database and focusing on building applications.

I'm not sure what you mean by non-Power Apps solutions, could you describe your scenario a bit further? Once you move into Dataverse, then it's now a Power Apps solution. Sure you can access the data from a custom app outside of Power Apps through Dataverse APIs and other integration/tooling, but you'd be significantly reducing any return on investment if you were simply using it for just data storage (there are much cheaper options for that in Azure).

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