Microsoft's Entity Framework and LINQ work pretty much like that, only with nice IDE support. I'll try to write an example like that when I get home. Of cours

Microsoft's Entity Framework and LINQ work pretty much like that, only with nice IDE support. I'll try to write an example like that when I get home. Of course, they're not "just SQL", and I do understand where the above comments come from. And yes, sometimes I have to go look up how to do things I'd do trivially on SQL.