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by 9dev 463 days ago
Come on, that’s not what you really do, but an oversimplification that skimps on the actually hard parts.

You manage (as few as possible) connections to a DBMS, create prepared statements, cache and transform results, lazily iterate over large result sets, batch writes, manage schema migrations, and more. It’s not very basic, unless you’re cobbling up a prototype.

> In every language I've worked with, there's practically just one SQL library to use.

Curious which languages that were. In practically all ecosystems I know, there are 2-4 contenders.