A method, system, and computer program product for dynamically building a database query by combining a static query clause with a user-specified filter. A method commences upon receiving a user-specified query filter from a user interface, then reformatting the user-specified query filter from a first query filter representation (e.g., clicks or text from the user interface) into a second query filter representation (e.g., into XML or into a database connectivity format, or into an SQL format, or into any native format). Subsequent steps combine the second query filter representation with a predefined database query (e.g., from an enterprise application) to form a dynamically-generated database language query. The filter is specified at a user interface, and the predefined database query is specified by an application.