It's been some years since I used SQL heavily. And I don't recall ever hearing about ORMs. But I certainly hated writing boilerplate. So I often used Excel and

It's been some years since I used SQL heavily. And I don't recall ever hearing about ORMs. But I certainly hated writing boilerplate. So I often used Excel and/or SQL to write my SQL. And I should add that I was using SQL for data forensics, in a very ad hoc way. Edit: Now I use Calc and bash to write my bash ;)