> which make it in practice harder to access the database for anything but trivial queries. I did my time. I understand normalization. I've got a vague underst

> which make it in practice harder to access the database for anything but trivial queries. I did my time. I understand normalization. I've got a vague understanding of the various normal forms (except 6NF which nobody seems to understand ;-) I can use a query profiler and I've occasionally read up on the different index types and their performance profiles. But I still prefer to use an ORM. SQL syntax just never fitted my brain. And the ORM I use can handle aggregation, annotation and a bunch of stuff that you couldn't really describe as "trivial queries"