SQL is an industry standard well understood by legions of senior developers and DBAs alike. SQL skills learned are repeatable, widely useful and build on past e

SQL is an industry standard well understood by legions of senior developers and DBAs alike. SQL skills learned are repeatable, widely useful and build on past experiences. Debugging and optimizing SQL queries is a well understood art, barring some rare DB specific optimizations (which ORMs don't even touch) Getting expert SQL advice and support when you need is very practical and the results show. Putting an ORM as the middle man generating your queries, negates all those benefits for some pithy premature laziness. Operating on raw SQL is something I'd strongly recommend.