Seconding: databases as an "implementation detail" is pretty wrong. If you're writing a basic CRUD app you can get away with it, and in fairness this is a lot o

Seconding: databases as an "implementation detail" is pretty wrong. If you're writing a basic CRUD app you can get away with it, and in fairness this is a lot of cases. But as soon as you start saying things like "how do we lock rows" or "let's put 10M rows in this table" you really need to write the SQL yourself, because at this point you don't have a software application, you have a data application.