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ProDataSets

> ## Business Entity object

> The Business Entity “owns” the data that constitutes a business object. This means that each running instance of a Business Entity procedure represents and holds the data for a particular object. If the Business Entity is for an `Order` and uses temp-tables for the `Order` header and for its `OrderLines`, then typically an instance of the entity would hold the data for a single `Order` and its `OrderLines`. In some cases, of course, a Business Entity could be used for a more specialized purpose, such as retrieving all the `Order` headers for a `SalesRep`, as one of the earlier examples shows, and returning those to the client, so that the client can then request detail for an `Order` in a subsequent call. There can be a wide variety to these specialized types of requests, and they will vary a lot from entity to entity.

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