> Orms are a god send 98% of the time. Writing queries is trivial and in any marginally complex case I'll write something which beats the ORM for efficiency. I

> Orms are a god send 98% of the time. Writing queries is trivial and in any marginally complex case I'll write something which beats the ORM for efficiency. I suppose they are a god send if you don't know SQL but you can learn SQL quite quickly.