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Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

By : Eickhel Mendoza
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Book Image

Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, 2e - Second Edition

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By: Eickhel Mendoza

Overview of this book

Power Apps is a low-code platform owned by Microsoft. With this platform, you can create solutions to solve your business needs while integrating with other components of the Power Platform, such as Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power BI, and others. This book is a handy solution guide to meet many organizational requirements. Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook, Second Edition, takes a pragmatic approach where every business scenario is presented in a quick, practical, and action-oriented recipe. You will be able to use these instant solutions in your development environment and customize your business apps to meet challenging business needs. This will help you handle real-world scenarios and experiences to give you a head start in your Power Apps projects. You will discover various aspects of Power Apps, from building canvas apps, designing model-driven solutions, extending apps with custom connectors, and integrating apps with other platforms, to the pro-developer side including Power Apps Component Framework and creating website experiences for external users with Power Pages. By the end of this Microsoft Power Apps book, you will have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and all its features.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Choosing the right data source – real-world tests

Every data source has unique features that make them ideal for specific scenarios, whether you need a robust relational database, a document-centric infrastructure, or a lightweight approach for mobile applications.

This recipe will test some of Microsoft’s most well-known players in the data source world: Dataverse, SharePoint, and Azure SQL Databases. With the help of Power Automate, we will test both the reading and writing speeds of these three contestants.

Getting ready

The first requirement is to have the same data structure for each service:

  • A list with the default Title column in SharePoint
  • A table with a Title field in Azure SQL using the Basic performance tier
  • A table with a Title column in Dataverse

After creating these data sources, proceed to the Power Automate portal to build our tests at https://make.powerautomate.com/

How to do it…

  1. We will...