<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">In Native SQL mode you enter SQL commands which are not interpreted by <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>, but instead are passed directly to the data source. If you do not display these changes in the design view, you cannot change back to the design view.</help:help-text></p>
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<p class="Paragraph"><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 via ODBC interface, the SQL string will be passed to the ODBC driver and processed by it.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">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 via SQL.</p>