You still need to know SQL when you're using ORM. You also need to know ORM when you're using one. It's really not that hard to make ORM perform well if you spend some time RTFMing.
When was the last time your RDBMS was handling business logic and wasn't just a persistence layer for your application? SQL (the language) isn't composable so you often have a choice of building strings or having many slightly different queries.
Anyway, pros of using an ORM outweight it cons in my opinion.
When was the last time your RDBMS was handling business logic and wasn't just a persistence layer for your application? SQL (the language) isn't composable so you often have a choice of building strings or having many slightly different queries.
Anyway, pros of using an ORM outweight it cons in my opinion.