I do have to agree about the readiblity. I suppose one could adjust the _column method to automatically prepend the table name. This could reduce the SQL to something more clear.

    SELECT $last_name, $first_name, $order_number
    FROM   $customers
    LEFT OUTER JOIN $orders ON $customer_id = $o_customer_id

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That is much cleaner, but you are correct about handing it to a DBA :( Perhaps creating an SQL repository that dynamically creates SQL and caches the results, but also allows for easy dumping of the generated SQL? That sounds workable, but I wonder if the added complexity offsets the added work.

In any event, you are correct about this not handling changes in the structure and that's a point that I need to stress in my talk, but hadn't really considered.

Cheers,
Ovid

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