Best Practices
• Use any site template, including the Blank Site template, for creating external content types.
• Define associations for external content types that have relationships with others, such as the relationship between customers and orders.
• If using External Data columns in SharePoint lists, periodically click the Refresh icon to ensure that the most current data is displayed in your SharePoint lists.
• For simple databases with little or no logic on various columns or tables, SharePoint Designer may be a useful tool for creating write-back operations. However, for larger or more complex databases, use a more advanced tool, such as Visual Studio 2010 for building write-back operations.
• When including Create or Update operations ...
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