> connections, parameters The database driver takes care of that, not the ORM. (It's also not black magic.) > transactions Huh? That's a database feature. B

> connections, parameters The database driver takes care of that, not the ORM. (It's also not black magic.) > transactions Huh? That's a database feature. BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK are ANSI SQL. ORM is an _Object Relational Mapper_. You're confusing it with a database driver (or, in the case of transactions, just a database in general).