When creating model-driven Power Apps, you will be presented with an option if you would like to create a database or not. Let’s create a new app and see how this option works.
First, sign in to the Power Apps admin portal at https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments: and create a new environment with a database:
Enter an environment name. We will call it CreateDatabaseOrg and select Yes to Create a database for this environment:
Select the new environment:
We can see the URL of our new environment, and that it does have a database associated with it:
In https://make.powerapps.com, we see for this environment, the following entities created:
And let’s create an environment with no database. We will call it NoDatabaseOrg and select No to Create a database for this environment:
On selecting No, we get no other options for creating Sample Apps, etc. Let’s select the new environment:
We are taken to an option to Add a database. Note this is on clicking on the link – it does not take us to the org as we need a database:
You can click Create my database to create a Common Data Service DB. The link goes to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-database. On clicking Create My Database, we are taken to the window below, where we can enter Currency and Language:
Let’s do this:
While processing, we see:
Once complete, we are able to access the org as in the example where the database was created initially:
In https://make.powerapps.com, we see for this environment, the following entities created:
In both cases, we do not get sample data installed in the databases:
But we do see Users, a Team, Business Unit, etc:
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