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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Marc Lampron on July 09, 2025, 12:00:22 am

Title: Using DataBase Builder with MS Dataverse repository (any success doing so ?)
Post by: Marc Lampron on July 09, 2025, 12:00:22 am

Hi all,

We would like Enterprise Architect to connect to an external database in a MS Dataverse repository and explore the Dataverse DB using the Database Builder or some other Enterprise Architect tool.

Is it possible ?
Does anyone had any success in doing so ?

Title: Re: Using DataBase Builder with MS Dataverse repository (any success doing so ?)
Post by: Modesto Vega on July 10, 2025, 02:12:08 am

The dataverse is a semantic layer and I don’t think it can reverse engineered, which is what the database builder does. Curiously, according to Microsoft, it can be explored/queried using SQL Server Management Studio.

Title: Re: Using DataBase Builder with MS Dataverse repository (any success doing so ?)
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on July 11, 2025, 10:08:56 am

Quote from: Modesto Vega on July 10, 2025, 02:12:08 am

The dataverse is a semantic layer and I don’t think it can be reverse-engineered, which is what the database builder does.  Curiously, according to Microsoft, it can be explored/queried using SQL Server Management Studio.

(my emphasis)
It's the OLD you have  to use/buy OUR tools to do stuff...

Paolo