[phereford]

I don't know if it's the norm or not, but leveraging an ORM without knowing SQL is a thing. ORMs have so many benefits (query parameterization just to name one). That and people can stay in their comfort zone language (Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc) and let the ORM do the heavy lifting instead of having to dip down into SQL.

Those that are really good with an ORM can generally go into SQL with ease.

The above is not meant to be objective, just my general observations.

[josteink]

To be clear I'm not against the use of ORMs.

They are a fine tool, but I find it weird that people are using them without knowing the underlying technology which they are based on.

And you also don't need ORMs to do query parameterization.