BCS vs BDC in SharePoint :

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BCS vs BDC in SharePoint :

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) :

  • BCS is used to connect with external content like sql data.
  • Using Business Connectivity Services, you can create, read, update, delete, and query (CRUDQ) to the external system from a Microsoft Office application or SharePoint site


Business Data Catalog

  • It is the old version of the  BCS, it is also widely used to fetch external data.
  • It differ from BCS by it can only read from external data,editing is not available here.



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