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That’s a really big “if”. In my experience, most application engineers aren’t very good at SQL because they don’t have to be; most apps just don't ever reach a scale where it matters, and something like Rails or Django with N+1 queries all over the place performs just fine.



Hence my 2 decade losing battle against ORM at every place I've worked :)

I'm, like, 1 for 10 maybe.




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