Summary

An important part of many applications is to use a database and generate queries in it. Normally when you do you'd create some SQL and fire it off to get a result set, but for a user interface this will be less optimal. For instance, we have an Artists table, and it is big.. So instead of having to show the entire table we want the user to fill in some lookup criteria in a Search Panel, then do a query to find only those artists that match those criteria, like only the artists born in 1964, or only those on the album "In Search Of Sunrise 6: Ibiza".

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