https://gavinwarner.digital/tags/beginner/ Recent content in Beginner on Gavin Warner Hugo en Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://gavinwarner.digital/posts/beginners-guide-to-dataverse/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://gavinwarner.digital/posts/beginners-guide-to-dataverse/ <h1 id="a-beginners-guide-to-dataverse"> A Beginner&rsquo;s Guide to Dataverse <a class="heading-link" href="#a-beginners-guide-to-dataverse"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h1> <figure><img src="https://gavinwarner.digital/posts/beginners-guide-to-dataverse/thumbnail.png" alt="A Beginner&#39;s Guide to Dataverse thumbnail" width="420"> </figure> <p>If you spend enough time around <strong>Power Apps</strong>, <strong>Power Automate</strong>, or <strong>Copilot Studio</strong>, you will eventually hear people mention <strong>Dataverse</strong>. For a lot of beginners, that is usually the point where things start sounding more complicated than they need to.</p> <p>At first, Dataverse can seem like one of those tools everybody talks about but nobody explains clearly. You hear that it is &ldquo;better&rdquo; than a SharePoint List, or that it is more &ldquo;powerful,&rdquo; or that it is the &ldquo;right&rdquo; way to build serious Power Platform solutions. None of that really helps if you are still trying to understand what it actually is.</p>