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Dataverse columns

Dataverse columns

- [Instructor] Columns are the individual pieces of information that Dataverse offers us and we have many different types available and we'll get to that in just a minute. Using our cake order table example, we might have columns to name the order Julie's cake, the cake type, it's a birthday cake, and the cake size, it's a half sheet cake, and additional information that would be specific to that order. But we also need information from related tables, such as the recipe or the theme of the order. These are called lookup columns because they look up the related table to share the information here. Columns are those specific pieces of data that are contained on that table row. You can add security to a specific column using column level security. Different types of data that we might see as a name, a description, that lookup we just saw to a related record, an image, a phone number, and so on. We have several different…

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