ORM's are great for the 99% of your DB interaction which basically boils down to "Fetch a record from this table and put the result in an object", or "Fetch the

ORM's are great for the 99% of your DB interaction which basically boils down to "Fetch a record from this table and put the result in an object", or "Fetch these records from that table and put the result in an array of objects". However, for that remaining 1% of complicated queries, a good developer can do a much better job than any ORM.