> Complicated SQL queries are a piece of cake with Django's built-in ORM. I disagree here or maybe "complicated SQL query" means something entirely different t

> Complicated SQL queries are a piece of cake with Django's built-in ORM. I disagree here or maybe "complicated SQL query" means something entirely different to me. I've found the ORM to be great for straightforward to reasonably involved queries. However the moment you start trying to improve the database performance, you need to drop to SQL. It's another story that SQL is a lot more difficult to maintain and not very DRY across modules.