Is there something easier than ORM?

[Michele Simionato]

On Feb 17, 5:35 pm, Philip Semanchuk <phi... at semanchuk.com> wrote:
>
> I don't intend this as a criticism of SqlAlchemy. On the contrary I am  
> impressed by what it does. But I often see people promoting ORM as the  
> solution to all database access problems, and I certainly don't feel  
> like it is.

I am also not a big fan of ORM, especially in situations where you
have
performance issues and you are using database specific features. In
such situations
you don't care about portability, but you care about having your SQL
explicit,
so that you can run it directly under the profiler.