If you're grabbing a bunch of data, performing operations on each row, and writing it back to the db, an ORM can be a big time-saver.
This is actually a pretty good explanation. I just realized that I'd simply never encountered such a situation at all. Most of my projects use SQL only in specialized tasks, i.e. storage of mass data, handling of caches.

My main gripe (at least as far as the setup goes) with all ORMs i've seen so far is the whole "tell me your db layout" thing, which is pretty annoying when you're still developing the app and your layout is still in a flux. Especially since this could be better done by using the DESCRIBE command.

Thanks for the note about REPLACE. I typically use SQLite, where it's an alias for INSERT OR REPLACE and didn't know it'd be slow in MySQL.

In reply to Re^8: Input on Lightweight SQL Query Templating? by Xenofur
in thread Input on Lightweight SQL Query Storage? by Xenofur

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