> It's like recommending against the use of HTTP before people learn TCI/IP...
This is a false dichotoy. SQL is not TCP/IP because it's nearly on the same level as ORMs. Unless you normalize and understand your entities properly it'll be difficult to write performant systems. ORMs are rightly called the Vietnam of Computer science¹ for this reason.
This is a false dichotoy. SQL is not TCP/IP because it's nearly on the same level as ORMs. Unless you normalize and understand your entities properly it'll be difficult to write performant systems. ORMs are rightly called the Vietnam of Computer science¹ for this reason.
[^1]: http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...