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Published inJan 2024
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Adrià Ariste Santacreu
Adrià Ariste Santacreu
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Adrià Ariste Santacreu

Adrià Ariste Santacreu has been working in the Microsoft business applications' field since 2010, starting with Axapta and Microsoft Dynamics AX, and since 2016 with Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O. A technical solution architect and developer who loves solving requirements with all the tools available in the Microsoft ecosystem, like the Power Platform or Azure services that can be used with Finance and Operations. Adrià has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2020 in the Business Applications category thanks to his community contributions, like speaking at events and conferences and writing technical articles about Dynamics 365 F&O, Azure, Dataverse, and the Power Platform.
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Scenarios for virtual tables

We’ve learned about Dual-write, one of the native ways to integrate F&O data with Dataverse. Now it’s time to learn about virtual tables, earlier known as virtual entities. virtual tables are a Dataverse concept that’s not exclusive to F&O. It’s a virtual data source that can display data from several different sources in Dataverse.

The most important feature of virtual tables is that the data is not present in Dataverse; we only see a representation of the data from the external system in Dataverse. In the case of Dynamics 365 F&O, we will be able to consume data from the public virtual entities in F&O from Dataverse, but the data will be kept in F&O.

Does this mean we can only read data using virtual tables? No! We can perform all CRUD operations and more:

  • Create: For creating data
  • Update: For modifying data
  • Delete: For deleting records
  • Retrieve: For querying a table with just the...
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Adrià Ariste Santacreu

Adrià Ariste Santacreu has been working in the Microsoft business applications' field since 2010, starting with Axapta and Microsoft Dynamics AX, and since 2016 with Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O. A technical solution architect and developer who loves solving requirements with all the tools available in the Microsoft ecosystem, like the Power Platform or Azure services that can be used with Finance and Operations. Adrià has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2020 in the Business Applications category thanks to his community contributions, like speaking at events and conferences and writing technical articles about Dynamics 365 F&O, Azure, Dataverse, and the Power Platform.
Read more about Adrià Ariste Santacreu