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by jalk 267 days ago
It's a big help if you know how to retrieve and interpret execution plans for the database you use.
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Yes, I was going to say, seeing the generated SQL can be almost useless depending on the execution plan.

When you have a solid view of the schema and data sizes you can start to be more predictive about what your code will actually do, THEN you can layer on the complexity of the ORM hell code.