Go: Sometimes an ORM is a Bit Much

When you need it, an ORM is great, but sometimes the effort it requires to achieve its magic is painful. For example, if you have an existing database with a detailed many-column table of student data, and just need the names of students in a grade, an ORM might get in your way rather than help. The ORM will want you to create model objects and correlate them to the schema often in a pretty one to one pattern. If you just want…