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They don't even need to be stored procedures, just having proper queries in the code to perform the database actions would be preferable to ORM.

Another big issue I have with ORMs is that a lot of them are hostile to you writing queries in the first place. Network IO is the worst, please stop trying to force us to use your terrible overlay.

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I’m going to start having a seizure if I keep reading this thread because I agree so strongly.

It is painful looking at modern software development. They don’t know the basics and the whole Agile/TDD thing I think was the start of the end because table schema (and every other kind of planning) is not really compatible with agile.

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