PHISSUG Chat #1: Forget SQL, Meet ORM
The Philippine SQL Server Users Group (PHISSUG) will be holding their first chat for this year:
Forget SQL, Meet ORM
Date: June 7 2007, 08:00GMT
Target Audience: SQL Developers
Abstract: If you have been writing SQL via stored procedures all your life, this new approach could cost you your decades old investment. Are you ready to throw away your SPs and embrace ORM?
The chat will be based on threaded discussion format on the PHISSUG forum.
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November 11th, 2007 at 04:01:55 PM
The ORM approach is definitely a time saver. One reason the Ruby on Rails framework is fast becoming the primary choice for web-based app development is because of its ORM library (called ActiveRecord).
However, an ORM is not always the perfect solution to the problem. Being another layer, you have to consider some performance impact, control, db changes, and how the ORM allows you to bypass it, if needed, without throwing the ORM-based code.