object-relational mappers

[Marco Mariani]

Tim Golden wrote:

> I've recently used Elixir and found it very useful for a small-scale
> database with no more than a dozen tables, well-structured and
> easily understood. I'd certainly use it again for anything like that
> to save me writing what would amount to boilerplate SQL. But I'd
> hate to imagine it in the context of my day job: a messy, organic
> and sprawling SQL Server database with over 1,000 tables, let alone
> views, procedures and so on.

That's the scenario where the rest of SQLAlchemy (beyond Elixir, that 
is, and with reflection turned to 11) can do mucho bueno.