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\title{ ORMs }

\author{ Sam Wilson }

\date{ 2023 July 7 (Friday), 9:50AM }

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I've got this weird little project that I've been working on a bit, and I keep trying to remove the ORM system. It's not that ORMs are terrible, they're not, they're great sometimes. But when it comes down to it I just find it more annoying. I love looking at the database query report for any given page in the app, and knowing exactly what each is for and that each is \emph{useful}. It's just so easy to end up with lots of random look-up queries with an ORM set-up — it seems that it's common to have a foreign key, and to not actually care about any of the attributes of the foreign record, but the ORM ends up querying for it. I don't mean the whole "n+1 selects" problem, that's annoying but not all that hard to avoid. It's the extra queries that don't really effect performance that bother me. I'd rather have a bit of a say over what's run.

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