Thanks to you I have now become an expert Php programmer  LOL.  Really, I hadn't installed any sophisticated tools and have simply been peppering my code with output statements.  But in order to continue to debug I had to install Eclipse with XDebug and learn how to use them  

  So thank you.  

Anyway, below is both the entire original query and the modified one.  Your modified query changed the FROM clause to FRO losing the M.
sql = 
                Select 
                    form.id As form_id,
                    form.act_as_registration,
                    form.default_category,
                    form.registration_name_field, 
                    form.registration_username_field, 
                    form.registration_email_field, 
                    form.registration_email_repeat_field, 
                    form.`last_update`,
                    article.`article_id`,
                    form.`title_field`,
                    form.`create_articles`,
                    form.`name`,
                    form.`use_view_name_as_title`,
                    form.`protect_upload_directory`,
                    form.`reference_id`,
                    records.`record_id`,
                    form.`type`,
                    form.`published_only`,
                    form.`own_only`,
                    form.`own_only_fe`,
                    records.`last_update` As record_last_update,
                    article.`last_update` As article_last_update
                From
                    #__contentbuilder_records As records
                    Left Join #__contentbuilder_forms As form On ( form.`type` = records.`type` And form.reference_id = records.reference_id )
                    Left Join #__contentbuilder_articles As article On ( form.`type` = records.`type` And form.reference_id = records.reference_id And article.form_id = form.id And article.record_id = records.record_id )
                    Left Join #__content As content On ( form.`type` = records.`type` And form.reference_id = records.reference_id And article.article_id = content.id And article.form_id = form.id And article.record_id = records.record_id )
                Where 
                    form.`published` = 1
                And
                    form.create_articles = 1
                And
                    form.`type` = records.`type`
                And 
                    form.reference_id = records.reference_id
                And
                   (
                     (
                        article.form_id = form.id 
                      And 
                        article.record_id = records.record_id
                      And 
                        article.article_id = content.id 
                      And 
                        ( content.state = 1 Or content.state = 0 )
                      And
                      (
                        form.`last_update` > article.`last_update`   
                       Or
                        records.`last_update` > article.`last_update`
                      )
                     )
                     Or
                     (
                        form.id Is Not Null And records.id Is Not Null And content.id Is Null And article.id Is Null
                     )
                   )
                Limit 50
Modified query
sql = 
                Select 
                    form.id As form_id,
                    form.act_as_registration,
                    form.default_category,
                    form.registration_name_field, 
                    form.registration_username_field, 
                    form.registration_email_field, 
                    form.registration_email_repeat_field, 
                    form.`last_update`,
                    article.`article_id`,
                    form.`title_field`,
                    form.`create_articles`,
                    form.`name`,
                    form.`use_view_name_as_title`,
                    form.`protect_upload_directory`,
                    form.`reference_id`,
                    records.`record_id`,
                    form.`type`,
                    form.`published_only`,
                    form.`own_only`,
                    form.`own_only_fe`,
                    records.`last_update` As record_last_update,
                    article.`last_update` As article_last_update
                Fro, records.id AS JD_MAGIC_KEY_1, form.id AS JD_MAGIC_KEY_2, article.id AS JD_MAGIC_KEY_3, content.id AS JD_MAGIC_KEY_4 m
                    #__contentbuilder_records As records
                    Left Join #__contentbuilder_forms As form On ( form.`type` = records.`type` And form.reference_id = records.reference_id )
                    Left Join #__contentbuilder_articles As article On ( form.`type` = records.`type` And form.reference_id = records.reference_id And article.form_id = form.id And article.record_id = records.record_id )
                    Left Join #__content As content On ( form.`type` = records.`type` And form.reference_id = records.reference_id And article.article_id = content.id And article.form_id = form.id And article.record_id = records.record_id )
                Where 
                    form.`published` = 1
                And
                    form.create_articles = 1
                And
                    form.`type` = records.`type`
                And 
                    form.reference_id = records.reference_id
                And
                   (
                     (
                        article.form_id = form.id 
                      And 
                        article.record_id = records.record_id
                      And 
                        article.article_id = content.id 
                      And 
                        ( content.state = 1 Or content.state = 0 )
                      And
                      (
                        form.`last_update` > article.`last_update`   
                       Or
                        records.`last_update` > article.`last_update`
                      )
                     )
                     Or
                     (
                        form.id Is Not Null And records.id Is Not Null And content.id Is Null And article.id Is Null
                     )
                   )
                Limit 50
I'll keep digging to see if I an find more.  In the meantime I do have another issue showing itself but haven't had time to tackle that one yet.  It seems that my links keep tacking on additional language parameters to the URL.  Like 
http://localhost/es/es/index.php.   Any clue why this might be happening?  It might be my next debug project.  

Thanks