<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="2"/><help:help-text value="visible">In Native SQL mode you can enter SQL commands that are not interpreted by <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>, but <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>are instead passed directly to the data source.</help:help-text> If you do not display these changes in the design view, you cannot change back to the design view.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="5" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><a name="nativesql"/>For native SQL, the SQL string is forwarded directly to the connected database system without a previous evaluation by <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>. For example, if you access a database through an ODBC interface, the SQL string is passed to the ODBC driver and processed by it.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Click the icon again to return to normal mode, in which the changes in the <help:link Id="66162" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">New Query Design</help:link> are synchronized with the permitted changes through SQL.</p>