Curious to hear if they were running SQL queries using some sort of ORM layer, or if they had people who were knowledgeable with SQL itself writing queries or c

Curious to hear if they were running SQL queries using some sort of ORM layer, or if they had people who were knowledgeable with SQL itself writing queries or creating Views to extract the data they needed, as well as tune the database and ensure proper INDEXES were in place. In my past experience, the two methods above can produce wildly different impacts on database performance.