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Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills by andybak on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:36PM (#21622312)
> which make it in practice harder to access the database for anything but trivial queries.

I did my time. I understand normalization. I've got a vague understanding of the various normal forms (except 6NF which nobody seems to understand ;-)

I can use a query profiler and I've occasionally read up on the different index types and their performance profiles.

But I still prefer to use an ORM. SQL syntax just never fitted my brain.

And the ORM I use can handle aggregation, annotation and a bunch of stuff that you couldn't really describe as "trivial queries"

Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills by andybak on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:09PM (#21623792)
(Actually - just read up my Codd again - I think it's 5NF that always had me stumped)