Strategy SQL Engine is the backbone of the entire Strategy product. It takes end user designs and needs and creates the necessary queries to fetch the desired data from the database. It picks the most optimal manner to retrieve the data to reduce the time needed to provide a good end user experience.

The Strategy SQL Engine can write queries based on either a mapped data model created in Architect or the schema object editors or it can generate queries off of the user design made within Data Import for building queries or picking tables. This can be done against the multitude of databases Strategy supports or through writing standard ANSI SQL against other databases.