The Visual Query Builder (requires a premium license) helps plugin users with no or little SQL knowledge to write SQL queries using a intuitive graphical user interface. Click button “Visual Query Builder” to start the graphical user interface (see image below – click to enlarge).
Select your database, tables, views and columns to write your SQL query (see image below – click to enlarge).
Writing a simple visual SQL query
- Click the Visual Query Builder button to start
- Click the Add table or view button
- Select a table or view
- Click the Execute button to show all rows of the selected table
Selecting columns
- Click on the columns you want to add to your selection
- Use the plus icon behind the column name to add a column multiple times (needed for multiple calculations on a column)
- Drag and drop to reorder selected columns
- Disable the visibility checkbox to hide a column value
- Enable sorting to use a column value to order your output
- Enable grouping to group your data
Adding filters
- Add a filter group first
- Add at least one filter condition to a filter group
- Filtergroups may contain other filter groups allowing nested AND and OR conditions
Relationships
- Click the circle icon behind a column to select the source column
- Click the circle icon behind another column to select the destination column
- This will result in an inner join
- Click the relationship circle icon the change the relationship settings