QSqlDatabase and "CREATE DATABASE ..." ??

[wysota]

Yes. I read that. But why should I do a named lookup for every query when I can store the pointer instead?

The funny thing is you don't have to store the connection anywhere because Qt will automatically pick up the default connection. The name lookup is hash-based so it yields almost no overhead (apart from using a mutex to lock the dictionary).

I stored it as a class member in my database abstraction class. Works perfectly. Where is there going to be a problem?

You have to pass *db everywhere which is awkward. And you have to delete the instance of the object somewhere.

Besides, there is a rule of a thumb that implicitly shared classes are to be created on the stack. There is nothing wrong in keeping a pointer to a database - if you want to do it and you have a reason, do it, but please don't teach others to follow Passing pointers around is not a good C++ habit.