Your ORM is Lying to You About SQL
Hi there,
This week’s essay dives into something your ORM doesn’t want to talk about — Common Table Expressions (CTEs).
They make SQL cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain.
Every modern database supports them… but most ORMs still pretend they don’t exist.
→ Read the full piece:
Your ORM is Lying to You About SQL (CTEs Explained)
“Readable. Recursive. Realistic.”
Part 1 of a 3-part series on the SQL your ORM won’t tell you about.
📚 Previously on Efficient Laziness
If you missed the previous essays, here are the two that started this series.
Efficient Laziness — Think once, well, and move forward.
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