Full Feature List: Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition
- Complete visual building of complex SQL queries
- Visual building of unions, sub-queries, derived tables and CTE
- Design Pane to visualize joins between tables in the query
- Query Columns Grid to define resulting query columns as well as criteria, grouping and sorting
- Query Structure Tree to browse and navigate the structure of complex queries quickly
- Database Schema Tree to add objects and fields to the query
- Datasource, Link and Query Properties dialogs to define various query options visually
- Customizable datasource field lists with ability to display data type and description
- Powerful means to ease the visual query building process
- Joining tables automatically according to foreign keys and programmatically
- Adding intermediate tables automatically on adding a new table to the query to have the existing tables joined with the new one
- Combining visual query building with direct SQL text editing
- Editing of sub-queries independently from the main query
- Formatting SQL query text layout
- Wide possibilities to customize the query building environment
- Altering metadata information: relationships between tables, descriptions of objects and fields
- Hiding unwanted database objects and fields
- Substituting real database object and field names with user-friendly aliases ("Alternate names")
- Adding high-usage sub-queries to the list of database objects ("Virtual objects")
- Adding complex expressions and sub-queries to the list of object fields ("Virtual fields")
- Rich programming interface
- Getting access to internal query representation objects for programmatic SQL query analysis and modification
- Retrieving the list of parameters found in the query and useful information about them: data type, related field, operator
- Pre-filtering of database objects to speed up metadata loading
- Preventing execution of queries with unwanted objects
- Filtering metadata by database, schema and object names, by object types.
- Saving all metadata information to XML file for future modification and faster loading
- Working without live database connection ("Offline mode")
- Customizing SQL query text formatting rules
- Several stlyes of visualizing joins at the Design Pane
- MS Access style
- SQL Server Enterprise Manager style
- Miscellaneous features
- Ability to translate interface of Active Query Builder to any language
- Ability to switch languages in run-time
- Ability to detect SQL Syntax dialect automatically
- Support for various SQL Dialects
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- Microsoft Access
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- InterBase
- Firebird
- IBM DB2
- Teradata
- Sybase ASA/ASE
- Informix
- SQLite
- ANSI SQL/89
- ANSI SQL/92
- ANSI SQL/2003
- Full set of database connectivity options
- Generic event-driven metadata provider
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