Object Models - decoupling data access - good examples ?

[Roy Smith]

In article <ebb88ade-7598-46b1-8fb6-fd7f7430b296 at googlegroups.com>,
 shearichard at gmail.com wrote:

> I should say I'm talking relational database here and, for various reasons, 
> ORMs are not involved.

Just out of curiosity, why do you eschew ORMs?

On the other hand, you really haven't.  All you've done is rolled your 
own.  So, the real question is, why do you want to roll your own ORM 
instead of using some existing one?