Re:What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
by RangerScience on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:30PM
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Which ORMs do you work with?
Whenever I get to the point where I'd do something gnarly with a query, I just fall back to SQL statements with results that the ORM can parse; or just dump directly into data structures and go from there, even if the originating tables still have ORMs.
If your framework/library/language doesn't let you skip the ORM - or populate the object with the results of a custom query - well, I'd say that's a failing of that ORM, not of ORMs in general.
Whenever I get to the point where I'd do something gnarly with a query, I just fall back to SQL statements with results that the ORM can parse; or just dump directly into data structures and go from there, even if the originating tables still have ORMs.
If your framework/library/language doesn't let you skip the ORM - or populate the object with the results of a custom query - well, I'd say that's a failing of that ORM, not of ORMs in general.