On Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:50:49 UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > The DAL preserves the SQL > query syntax, while an ORM often does not. >
That is exactly right. The DAL abstracts away some of the complexity of SQL, and certainly some of the differences between the various implementations of SQL by the various vendors of database engines, but not too much that it is difficult to figure out what is happening at the lower level of raw sql. A foot in both worlds.
