alt Hacker NewsIsn't the whole "thing" about JPA (and all other ORMs ever) that you're supposed to "use it" instead of directly doing well optimized native queries on your database so that you can jump ship if the database provider turns out to be shit?
Isn't the whole "thing" about JPA (and all other ORMs ever) that you're supposed to "use it" instead of directly doing well optimized native queries on your database so that you can jump ship if the database provider turns out to be shit?
Nah everything we did was hand crafted for their specific db.
It was particularly bad because it was a very small family business with equally small customers. And they all had to buy oracle licenses first, which made us insanely expensive without making money lol.
Fun in hindsight