Re: Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

2014-06-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:39 AM, wrote: > When presented with options, these are the possible stances: > > 1. (Lead) Become educated on the options and decide on one. > 2. (Follow) Become educated on the options and remain impartial. > 3. Remain ignorant of the similarities/differences and decide

Re: Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

2014-06-11 Thread suamere
> I'm afraid I don't understand what all that means. > > > > But I invariably go for SQL over any abstraction paradigm. When presented with options, these are the possible stances: 1. (Lead) Become educated on the options and decide on one. 2. (Follow) Become educated on the options and remai

Re: Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

2013-02-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:03:08 -0800, rusi wrote: > On Feb 6, 5:58 pm, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: >> The question of persistence implementation arise often. I found >> repository pattern very valuable due to separation of concerns, mediate >> between domain model and data source (mock, file, database

Re: Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

2013-02-06 Thread Alec Taylor
I agree that ORMs can be rather complicated; especially when you need to do some refactoring. Another reason not to use ORMs is difficult of measuring query complexity. However, some of the most major advantages of ORMs are: - Generation of forms - Same code can be used with multiple backends - T

Re: Thoughts on SQL vs ORM

2013-02-06 Thread rusi
On Feb 6, 5:58 pm, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: > The question of persistence implementation arise often. I found repository > pattern very valuable due to separation of concerns, mediate between domain > model and data source (mock, file, database, web service, etc). > > The database data source is