I totally agree. I much prefer tools like the now-deprecated Yesql for Clojure that provide for easy mapping of actual SQL queries to function wrappers for thos

I totally agree. I much prefer tools like the now-deprecated Yesql for Clojure that provide for easy mapping of actual SQL queries to function wrappers for those queries. Also, given that the database is where your data model’s consistency should be enforced, stored procedures and views are your friends. The last fifteen years of web app frameworks and developer practices have abused/neglected RDBMS systems by regarding them as simple table stores. ORMS are a classic “now you have two problems” non-solution.