ORM's are for basic CRUD crap. SQL is for queries that matter. My ORM usage is almost entirely limited to: get this record, change these values, save it. Anyth

ORM's are for basic CRUD crap. SQL is for queries that matter. My ORM usage is almost entirely limited to: get this record, change these values, save it. Anything involving complex joins/ unions gets thrown to raw SQL. Better yet, stored functions on the DB side. Postgres is awesome for this.