I'm working on a Drupal 7 update to the node_example.module. Issue: http://drupal.org/node/508342 I have a working D7 version of node_example.module. Before I post my replacement candidate I'm hoping for answers to a couple of questions. If you have a comment, please respond in the issue queue (http://drupal.org/node/508342) so we retain a record of the conversation. Q1: The Drupal 6 example (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--examples--node_example.module) provided SQL for creating a database table required for the module. I've created a .install file and Schema API definition for the module (for my own testing sanity). Since using schema is best practice, I would like to include the .install file in the example. Comments/Objections? Q2: If the Schema API is used, which database update method is better for the example: drupal_write_record() (Schema API) or db_insert()/db_update()? I've used db_insert and db_update because they seem the best follow-on from the Drupal 6 example. However, I don't know if this is a situation where drupal_write_record() is best practice. Thanks in advance, everyone. Looking forward to feedback in http://drupal.org/node/508342 .