Yes, I totally agree. Something isn't working? Oops, now you still gotta look at the SQL! Also... I've seen several anti-pattern usages where someone would qu

Yes, I totally agree. Something isn't working? Oops, now you still gotta look at the SQL! Also... I've seen several anti-pattern usages where someone would query a list of IDs, and then in a loop with an accumulator fetch data from another table, one ID at a time. If you don't grok joins, and someone tells you "yeah whatever don't bother learning SQL, we have an ORM", this happens. An ORM is an anti-tool.