DatabaseEvents Error

I am revisiting DatabaseEvents after not using it for a while and seem stuck at a pretty basic place which used to work. Anyone have an insights? Has something changed?

tell application "Database Events"
	set refDatabase to make new database with properties {name:"Test"}
	tell refDatabase
		make new record
		-- error "Database Events got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000
	end tell
end tell

In a twist of irony, I found a solution online that someone posted with an example script from my 2010 book.

The default location for databases is /user/documents/databases and you need to create the Databases folder there if it doesn’t exist.