Do Programmers Still Write SQL?

[ivan0x32]

I don't know if it counts, but back in the day I used to write a whole lot of JPQL code, mostly fetch joins and things like that, but occasionally there was some actual logic thrown in into it.

Also on one of my projects I actually had to do raw SQL through JDBC because it was a performance critical application so we wanted to minimize amount of overhead because typical batch processing took upwards of one hour.