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You should learn SQL and understand relational databases. But using an abstraction (ORM) to cover 80% of the use cases is much better than writing tons of boilerplate SQL. http://java.dzone.com/articles/martin-fowler-orm-hate

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Thank you. I searched to see if his article had been mentioned, and glad to find you did. The link he gives to Ted Neward's post is gone, but I found it in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20141205230114/http://blogs.tedn...

Seems like this thread has gone down a very old, well worn rabbit hole.

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