Jim Youmans-439383 (5/12/2014)
I totally agree! And now I see more and more developers embracing ORMs like Entity Framework so that they "don't have to mess with all that database crap" and it scares me. What scares me more is some of the code and database designs that come out of those packages.
ORM users are one of the groups of "programmers" I tend to think of as "users". Not because ORMs are bad per se, but minimally, using the 1 level deeper example, you ought to know what code the ORM is generating, and how to override it if it turns out to be a less than adequate solution.
Just hoping that someone else's code does a good job is not being a programmer at all.