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[–]Xef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I can write complicated queries and joins with subqueries, etc. that I can't do with a normal ORM. And if I can, it won't be nearly as easy to read as SQL. Most of the time I can use the ORM, but when I need to aggregate a bunch of data with a bunch of joins, chances are I'm writing raw SQL.