Yes, but OTOH, it lessens the likelyhood of errors, and means you'll have to rewrite minimum amounts of code when you, say, switch from MySQL to Postgres. Abst

Yes, but OTOH, it lessens the likelyhood of errors, and means you'll have to rewrite minimum amounts of code when you, say, switch from MySQL to Postgres. Abstraction always lessens awareness of that which is abstracted. Decide where to draw the line for your app.