Database Query Builder

[magnadesigns]

I've been working on a contact management program using Database Query Builder. Everything is looking good, I'm able to move forward and backwards through the fields and the fields update properly.

However I read somewhere that Database Query Builder has some issues? And that it shouldn't be used?

If that is so, can someone help with an issue. How would I move between records (back and forwards) and also update the fields on the screen in the same way I am doing now?

Thanks!

- Noel

[mwieder]

The Database Query Builder is a pretty simplistic tool and hasn't been updated in many years. If it does what you need, then you're doing fine and I wouldn't worry about it. But if you need to do more comprehensive database work under the hood then you're better off writing the database calls from scratch or using Trevor DeVore's sql tools. One problem that you may run into later on is trying to figure out where the database information that gets generated by the Query Builder actually lives. I haven't used the DBQB in some time, but I do remember that it's stored in a custom property set of the stack somewhere.