QAD Data Warehouse Designer generates procedural code in the target database's native language (e.g. PL/SQL for Oracle) at each stage in the data warehouse build process. The generated code is, in nearly all cases, sufficient to create a rapid prototype of the data warehouse.

While the generation of code is often seen as a key benefit of QAD Data Warehouse Designer, the ability to control and manage custom code is also critical to the long term management of the data warehouse environment.

In most cases 85-100% of the generated code will be taken through to production with no customization required.