Fully agree. ORMs save you typing if you just need to wrap a table, but for complex multi-table queries I have seen really bad performance as a result. I rather

Fully agree. ORMs save you typing if you just need to wrap a table, but for complex multi-table queries I have seen really bad performance as a result. I rather prefer to capture my queries in a view, and then wrapping that is so trivial, that I don't need an ORM.