[agildehaus]

For me it's mainly because I'm hopping around from database to database depending on the project and I can't keep everything in my head.

The more "best practices" I can automate the better since it reduces cognitive load on my poor noggin.

[pdimitar]

Agreed. It's why I think us the programmers should eventually just settle for 5-10 languages globally and not touch anything else -- so [together with all the other problems that still exist] we can also finally get to writing the one UltimateDataMapper™ library that can work with whatever is out there.

I seriously can't be bothered to setup yet another cool and young database promising me quantum entanglement teleportation anymore. It's what is stopping me from trying 99.9% of what I see on the net.

I have a few scripts to which I just pass a DB name / user / pass and it brings me up (or tears down) a Postgres or MySQL/Maria database. I'd do the same for Elastic and a few others if I wasn't so lazy about it for years now.