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Most of the items that we have just reviewed are classified as entities within the world of Dynamics CRM. Entities are the building blocks of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and, from a structural design perspective, an entity is a set of Microsoft SQL database tables. Each entity has forms, views, charts, field, messages, and relationships. For instance, entities can have relationships to other entities from many different perspectives. An entity can have a parental relationship with another where there is a key connection between the two entities. Or entities can have other types of relationships, such as referential (they refer to each other). Or for any given entity, there may be many other related entities, such as the relationship ...