You are right in that NSFetchedResultsController is a nice feature of using Core Data with TableViews, but the functionality is not difficult to write on your o

You are right in that NSFetchedResultsController is a nice feature of using Core Data with TableViews, but the functionality is not difficult to write on your own. As you insert or update data, call [tableView reloadData]. You may not want to reload each cell for one insert in which case you can do something a bit more custom. And yeah, there is a reference to catsDB. I thought people may find that funny if they ever looked into the implementation. The work is derived from a blog post I wrote a while back to demonstrate connecting to a SQL instance in Objective C.