This is exactly why I find no solution fits all here. For me, I use an ORM as a catch-all and then for certain applications I manually write the queries. It's b

This is exactly why I find no solution fits all here. For me, I use an ORM as a catch-all and then for certain applications I manually write the queries. It's best of both worlds, and I know what components in my app have custom queries so I can test against them.