> Easy enough: almost no one writes SQL queries by hand these days, not for querying the database nor for doing schema upgrades. It's all done by tools Your ex

> Easy enough: almost no one writes SQL queries by hand these days, not for querying the database nor for doing schema upgrades. It's all done by tools Your experience does not match mine. Tools like ORMs make horrible schemas in my opinion that cater to the lowest common denominator of SQL engine functionality. This means leaving a lot of performance and scalability on the floor. In order to make the ORMs generate decent schema definitions, you need to know the underlying engine and therefore SQL. At that point, you might as well use SQL. Ever try changing a column's data type from a table with hundreds of millions of rows with an ORM definition file? Hope you like downtime.