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Understanding ORMs - The Bridge Between Code and Databases
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Understanding ORMs - The Bridge Between Code and Databases

DEV Community: backend·Vipul·5 months ago
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When building applications, developers constantly interact with databases -- storing users, fetching orders, updating products, and much more.

But writing raw SQL queries everywhere can become repetitive, difficult to maintain, and error-prone.

This is where ORMs(Object Relational Mappers) come in.

What is an ORM?

An ORM is a tool or framework that allows developers to interact with databases using programming language objects instead of writing raw SQL queries.

Instead of this:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1 ;

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You can write something like:

User user = userRepository .…

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