Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to database driven collaborative applications and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for generating a separable query design object and database schema through visual view editing. In one embodiment, an application generation method can be provided. The method can include creating a form for a collaborative application, placing a data source user interface control within the form and binding at least one field of a database query result set to the data source user interface control. Finally, the method can include storing a database query for the result set separately from the form.