> prefer it to writing SQL queries manually Everybody prefers anything that does a barely decent job at preventing you from writing SQL manually :) If you set

> prefer it to writing SQL queries manually Everybody prefers anything that does a barely decent job at preventing you from writing SQL manually :) If you set the bar that low then sure, you'll have an "excellent opinion" of ANY ORM. Can you give an example of an ORM you didn't prefer to writing SQL manually for 50% of the cases? - most that were that bad are probably not in usage anymore...