Is the Query Builder (QuB) fatally flawed? Or I, perhaps?

I have noticed at lot of issues on both the general and php discussion forums regarding the Query Builder. I just completed the contacts management system tutorial and everything worked fine until the last step which involved using the QuB. Has anyone else got this to work consistently?...

Folks,
"slow and not particularly intuitive."
ADDT in a nutshell?...
ADDT´s Query Builder is loaded in a browser, which - unlike a standard Windows/Mac/whatever application - has a completely different "memory management", and if you´re loading heaps of data (e.g. SQL results) in a browser, it can get real slow due to that.
Any real "application" is by nature superior to the Query Builder, but it´s like comparing apples with pizza, as the "runtime environment" is a totally different one.
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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Thanks in advance
Dylan.

1. Java Client QueryBuilder has support for selecting dimension members based on an attribute.
To use this functionality, go to Dimensional Panel -> Conditions tab. Drill on Match group of conditions. The attribute condition appears as the last available condition, but only for dimensions that have attributes.
To test this, use BIBDEMO schema supplied with BI Beans and look at conditions for Product dimension.
2. If you wish to display dimension attributes and their values in the HTML client UI,
here is how you can retrieve attributes and their values for a dimension:
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Leonid,
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After I edited the SQL in a dataset, I can't use the query builder in any datasets that I create.

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Login to my workspace on apex.oracle.com (vikasa/guest/guest) and check out the Apex - SQL Workshop application (20777) and see how various features are implemented.
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I don't believe so. If you create a view on the foreign schema's table you can use the view in the QB.
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I have problem. Some users can't see some of attributes of info-object in the Query Designer. Where is the problem?

I think you would need to give more details on the problem,
as <b>some</b> users are not able to see <b>some</b> attributes.
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Kurt, thanks for your replies.
A couple of notes/clarifications.
1. You are correct that BI works better in Firefox--I have observed issues with the BI display when using IE. I would recommend using Firefox too.
2. You are correct about the way to get to the Query Builder to see a graphical view of data tables. There are basically two issues with this that I mentioned, but will re-iterate:
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Findings:
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From your description I'd conclude that your DBA has provided you database access via a user ID (schema), let's say USER1. If you have registered this database as JDBC / JNDI data source using this particular user, then you will always need to prefix your table names with 'SIEBEL.' as the database objects are stored in the SIEBEL schema, and not in the USER1 schema.
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Query Builder not locating emails based on email address, only the display name will work.

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Hi,
This is the expected behavior of Outlook.
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Query Builder dynamicly change the request

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Did someone have the same problem with this beta of ODT ?
With the previous version of ODT I don't have the problem.
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Jeff

Hi Jeff,
Our engineers are looking into this. Right now, it appears this change is being done by Query Builder itself (eg there may be nothing we can do to stop it). This did not happen in VS2008.
However if you change your original query to the equivalent using the "LEFT OUTER JOIN" keywords, you can avoid this problem entirely:
For example:
From:
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