That's been my experience. My team (webservices at a large enterprise) has come to rely on ORM as a crutch—the rule is, if we use an ORM, we don't need to run o

That's been my experience. My team (webservices at a large enterprise) has come to rely on ORM as a crutch—the rule is, if we use an ORM, we don't need to run our schemas past a DBA. This probably came out of necessity (most of the DBAs at my org tend to be more sysadmins responsible for installing Oracle, rather than real DBAs), but the results—bloated schemas that are difficult to query efficiently, various tricky performance gotchas, etc.—should not have been surprising.