Your Data Access Layer Doen't Understand Databases

Here's what nobody in the data access space wants to admit: the tools built to simplify database work have quietly offloaded the hardest parts back onto your application. Not by accident — by design. They model a pleasant fiction of what a database is, and when reality diverges, you pay for it in conditionals, workarounds, retries, and production incidents. This is not a complaint about generated SQL. SQL quality is a separate argument, and an old one. The problem runs deeper. Connection behavio