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andrewstuart 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

SQL is awesome and you’ll never get the best out of your database unless you learn to program the damn thing and bit hide behind some abstraction.

We do programmers always need a library?

Program the damn thing.

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