ORMs are only trusted if the SQL they create seems sane when compared to how you'd write the SQL manually. After six years with Hibernate and SQLAlchemy (via T

ORMs are only trusted if the SQL they create seems sane when compared to how you'd write the SQL manually. After six years with Hibernate and SQLAlchemy (via TurboGears), I still turn on SQL statement logging to check what's being sent for each transaction.