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I've used ORMs extensively in my career, and I've seen it trotted out as a Boogeyman here a million times. Why do I still prefer writing queries with a good ORM
by DangitBobby 2y ago
I've used ORMs extensively in my career, and I've seen it trotted out as a Boogeyman here a million times. Why do I still prefer writing queries with a good ORM over awkwardly composing SQL by conditionally concatenating strings? Is buggy, error prone string concatenation with a bunch of if statements the true way? What am I missing?
- hot_gril 2y agoConditional concat should be pretty rare. When are you doing that?
- DangitBobby 2y agoWhen I need a new where clause or a new order by, or I have to stop using an IN filter because you can't use an empty tuple. Stuff like that.
- hot_gril 2y agoYeah, if you're going to conditionally add filters, this is mostly the only way with SQL. There are a few tricks depending on the dialect, like =ANY() is more convenient than IN, or COALESCE can avoid some dynamic WHEREs. You're not really missing anything other than query builders, which are worse for other reasons.