You always hear this from somebody who is new to ORMs, spends 3 months working on a project, and then is amazed because he doesn't like one thing or another in

You always hear this from somebody who is new to ORMs, spends 3 months working on a project, and then is amazed because he doesn't like one thing or another in the file. It'll be funny when he discovers that with just a few other lines of code he can not only fix that issue, but also completely change how data is stored in the database, use 1st and 2nd level caching for the objects, and be able to easily refactor all that stuff when the business logic changes. By the way, I seriously doubt that query is the cause of performance problems in his system.