You jumped to some pretty big conclusions there.

1. I said ORM implementation - didn't say it was the fault of the ORM per se.

2. The query in question...

Gary Varga (9/16/2014)

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Yet Another DBA (9/16/2014)

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...Same developers who then want a report done via a stored procedure/view and then want tsql to format the data, and I do mean string...

I FULLY agree with that though.

The ease of use has attracted a flurry of newbies that DO use it badly.

ORMs...

Well, ususally I agree 100% with what you write, and I love your way of thinking.

However, this time I really think you did not consider all the benefits of an...