I've been using SQL over 20 years in Oracle/Informix/Sybase/IBMDB2/MSSQL and have written exam questions on SQL. That said, concatenating raw strings to form S

I've been using SQL over 20 years in Oracle/Informix/Sybase/IBMDB2/MSSQL and have written exam questions on SQL. That said, concatenating raw strings to form SQL that has no compile time type-checking is tedious and error prone. Thankfully, my "expert" knowledge of SQL does not blind me to the benefits of what a well-written ORM can do for productivity. (E.g. results caching, compile-time validation, auto-completion in the IDE, etc)